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AskHardware: I need help with Two CPU choices | Intel® Core™ 2 Quad Q9400 Processor vs AMD Phenom™ X4 9650 2.3GHz
I have tried to find benchmark tests to see which is really the better cpu but i have been unable to find anything that makes sense to someone that has minor knowledge in this matter. Any information provided would be greatly appreciated.
**EDIT:** Just wanted to say thank you for all the information. The reddit community has always been a very warm and intelligent community. I greatly appreciate the help all of you have offered. i have decided on these specs:
[cpu](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215)
[mobo](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130239)
[ram](http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145260) | 4 | [
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"body": "Don't know too much about AMD anymore but it seems to me the Intel Core i5 would be a better choice than the Q9400, no?\n\nQuad-core, DDR3 and with \"turbo boost\" or whatever they call it that overclocks two cores automatically when appropriate. \n\nFor basically the same price, the Core i5 750 is the same clock-speed as the Q9400 but because of the new architecture is actually quite a bit faster.\n",
"score": 9
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"body": "You're comparing a $120 processor to a $200 processor. Of course the intel is going to be better. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Well for those two the numbers aren't pretty.\n\nhttp://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=23&p2=76\n\nThese are the processors you should be comparing though.\n\nhttp://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=88&p2=109\n\nOh and this Anandtech bench thing is AWESOME, just found it. :)",
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What bike blogs do you read? | I personally read [bikesnopnyc](http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/), [fatty](http://www.fatcyclist.com/), [bikecommuters](http://www.bikecommuters.com/)
Always looking for more, any suggestions? | 11 | [
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"body": "I <3 Snobbie! And I like Fatty when I remember to read him. I'll check the other blogs listed here. Thanks.",
"score": 7
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"body": "My personal favorite is [ArcticGlass](http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/) about a chick (mostly) biking, hiking, climbing, and all sorts of outdoor living in Alaska. She has many photos in each (check out her [2009 in Photos](http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-in-photos.html)) which makes it more enjoyable.",
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Anybody have a super good hashbrowns recipe? | I love hashbrowns and I've tried to prepare them on many occasions, never with more than a mediocre result. usually they are soggy or kind of sticky rather than crisp and awesome. i'm not sure if it's a matter of what potato used or if i'm not cooking them at the right heat... any wisdom out there? | 3 | [
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"body": "I have had good luck using raw potatoes. Wash, peel, and grate. Put any high temp oil (Peanut works well) in a cast iron pan and gradually heat to medium-high. Here's the key: Squeeze out as much moisture from the grated potatoes as humanly possible. Then sprinkle with a little salt an pepper, mix well and shape into a thin patty. When the pan is hot put the patty(s) in and cook until browned, flip once and do the same. Serve hot.",
"score": 4
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"body": "There are really two main things to remember with hash browns:\n\n• Put the grated potato into a towel and wring it out before cooking, removing excess liquid. This will reduce the sticking and ensure that you get more total browned surface area. \n\n• Use bacon fat. No butter, no olive oil, no canola oil; bacon fat. While salted and peppered potatoes taste great, you're trying to darken the potato in order to get that amazing crunch that the best has browns have. That requires a good, higher temperature, tasty fat. Unless you've got duck fat siting around, bacon fat is your best bet to make quality tasting hash browns. ",
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Nexus One coming to at&t 3G "in a few weeks" | So when I was returning my N1 (because of lack of T-M coverage) HTC tried to get me to keep it by saying that the device I had *would* work on AT&T's 3G (the only provider that has coverage @my home) "in a few weeks."
No idea if they were just trying to screw me or if that's real, but I thought it was interesting none the less. | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm pretty sure the radio in the Nexus One is only compatible with T-Mobile's 3G. It's a technical limitation, not a contractual one.",
"score": 6
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The problem with DPI consistency on Linux | My Gnome is configured to use 96 DPI, but Firefox and Chromium do no follow these settings. I saw this in other applications too (such as OpenOffice), and in even in some native Gnome applications.
For example: 16px Times New Roman font in Firefox is equal to 12px Times New Roman in Gnome.
The only conclusion is that DPI on Linux is somehow broken. Can Reddit explain why is this happening? This issue seriously limits Linux' capability to do design. | 33 | [
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"body": "Trust [no one](http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration#Make_font_sizes_match_DPI_settings).\n\nLast I checked the GNOME font configuration page didn't munge your fontconfig .fonts.conf, rather it changed some freedesktop.org property thing that only GTK really listens to.\n\nEDIT: Ah, here we go: [XSETTINGS](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/ScreenFontSettings)",
"score": 14
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"body": "Windows is broken too. There are far to many third-party apps written by people who think that DPI only relates to printers. ",
"score": 14
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"body": "Maybe you can set the preference [layout.css.dpi](http://kb.mozillazine.org/Layout.css.dpi) in Firefox to make it work? The default value -1 means \"Use the host system’s logical resolution or 96\", so it *should* work, but i would give it a try and set it explicitely.\n\nEDIT: clarified \"a try\".",
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"body": "While I think it is worthwhile for the system to be aware of the screen dpi,\nI have become convinced that dpi is entirely the wrong basis for scaling on-screen user interfaces. Sure it is relevant for representation of real world material (which has an intrinsic real world size) and the system should be able to display 100% as wit's real world size. Purely screen based material shouldn't care. It is what the user wants that is important and that is related to the size of what they can distinguish and how much they want to see. Almost always the size set to a balance of those two factors, without any relationship to real world size.\n\nI have an OLPC XO. This highlights the problems of DPI based representation. It has a 200dpi display which makes programs naturally inclined to make things use more pixels, but it also has a 7 inch screen. If user interfaces were the same real world size as on my 21 inch monitor, the amount you could fit would be unusable. \n\nPerhaps user interfaces need to be based upon a independent measurement system that is user configurable. So rather than increasing/decreasing all your fonts etc. or lying to the system about the actual dpi of the display, you can do reasonable level scaling.\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "DPI is not only a loaded term, but it is also (apparently) a difficult concept for humans to wrap their minds around because no one takes it into account (consistently) on *any* system---even the printing industry is (from my experience) full of confusion.\n\nInform X11 of your monitor's actual DPI (really, *PPI*: pixels per inch) using something like the following (`DisplaySize width height`, with measurements of the visible screen in millimeters):\n \n Section \"Monitor\"\n Identifier \"monitor0\"\n DisplaySize 370 278\n EndSection\n \nThen, either programs use this information properly or they don't. Old programs won't (especially if they use server fonts), and even newer ones will have trouble because the GUI APIs weren't designed with PPI independence in mind; complain to the developers.\n\nPeople are working to add the ability to scale everything on screen consistently, and this is erroneously being called a DPI setting (of course, everyone is redefining what DPI means in order to make sense of it; just read the CSS standard).\n\nFirefox doesn't do the right thing, if I recall; it's a bug.",
"score": 4
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YSK, Blood is Red, never blue. | Human blood is red, not blue.
Its not blue inside you and it does not turn red when oxygenated.
Dark red/Red. But nonetheless, red.
I've found there seems to be a rather common belief otherwise, and today my flatmate declared it was blue.
Sauces, all good explanations:
**Edit** Fixed links, 2 were broken, apologies :S
*http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=2043
*http://www.globalclassroom.org/blublud.html
*http://www.biology-online.org/biology-forum/about763.html
*http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_color_is_deoxygenated_blood
If blood is red, why are veins blue?
*http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1419/if-blood-is-red-why-do-your-veins-look-blue* | 56 | [
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"body": "Sorry, but **some blood is blue**.\n\nInstead of being *iron* based, like ours and most other animals', [horseshoe crabs' blood is based on *copper*. It carries hemocyanin, ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemocyanin) instead of hemoglobin.\n\nHoreshoe-crab blood is also amazingly useful and valuable in the medical industry. If you have a pure quart of it, you're almost set for life.\n\nYa rly.",
"score": 31
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"body": "As a swede, this is really weird. How would people even believe that? And teachers teach that? Without getting fired? What kind of country do you live in, anyway?",
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Seems like most films that feature aliens assuming human form are horror films. (Species, The Thing) Any examples of movies where an alien takes human form and is accepted by humans, even they know it’s an alien? | *SPOILER* below
Look away
In the film Avatar, the Na'vi tribe eventually accepts Jake as one of their own, even though they're aware that his body isn't quite.. authentic. While I loved the film, this premise seemed unlikely to me. I was wondering what examples there might be of this idea but in reverse. | 6 | [
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"body": "[*Earth Girls Are Easy*](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097257/) -- classic '80s schlock alien sex comedy.\n\nI guess they're not really in human form, but they certainly are ... accepted!",
"score": 8
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Would we be called Gods? | Suppose we manage to create a new lifeform, a new type/kind of sentience.
We wouldn't be gods to them, because even though we would have created them, we are mortal. Quite not god-like.
would we be able to take the heat, so to speak? accept the responsibility (and how?) of creating something that knows it exists (like us) and knows it will cease to exist (like us. remember: there is no permanence)?
disclaimer: not trying to be very rigorous here, i am knowingly ignoring certain important details (perception of time, for instance). i'm a physicist not a philosopher (but i imitate one on reddit) | 6 | [
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"body": "Depends on how you define 'god(s)', but probably not. The word tends to imply something supernatural and we probably can't do anything supernatural.",
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"body": "To answer the original question: No, I don't believe that any being we would create would consider us \"gods\" unless we taught them what a \"god\" was and then manipulated them into thinking that we were such. \n\nWhen you think about creating another sentient species, things get tricky. Suppose through some unbelievable advancement in technology, we are able to create this sentient species. I think a shitstorm would break out as to what we do with the species then. Some people might want to just keep them in labs to study. Some might want to use them as labor tools (i.e. slaves or cheap labor). It gets really complicated.\n\nBy the fact that we are human and have our ever-present limitations, I don't think a being could truly believe in us being gods. Weird question, but fun to think about.",
"score": 4
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"body": "what about if the life span of the creatures was just one month? Then to them it would seem like we are immortal as we live past many hundreds of their generations",
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Final round of voting: Comment of the Year | Vote for as many finalists as you want.
The list of nominees who didn't make the cut can be viewed [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/algv1/nominate_comment_of_the_year/). | 311 | [
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"body": "[WarToad](http://www.reddit.com/user/WarToad), Unsung hero: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/ahg8x/what_is_the_nicest_thing_youve_ever_done_that_no/c0hkuyq)]**\n",
"score": 3115
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"body": "[bozarking](http://www.reddit.com/user/bozarking), They're probably brother and sister or something: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/afr4p/shyness/c0hcmui)]**\n",
"score": 2575
},
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"body": "[acegibson](http://www.reddit.com/user/acegibson), Monty Python sketch: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/89kto/student_finds_cellphone_turns_it_into_police/c08ml3e)]**\n",
"score": 1630
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"body": "[frinklestein](http://www.reddit.com/user/frinklestein) diagnoses the cause of another redditor's depression: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/acdy7/i_have_everything_i_could_reasonably_ask_for_and/c0gvt51)]**\n",
"score": 1401
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"body": "[TyPower](http://www.reddit.com/user/TyPower), Early 21st Century Syndrome: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/93yaq/anyone_else_here_feel_like_theyre_never_fully/c0bcp8m)]**\n",
"score": 1384
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"body": "[LOLalice](http://www.reddit.com/user/LOLalice) tells a sad yet touching story: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9ygcy/im_a_former_disneyland_cast_member_i_was_alice_in/c0f0wpi)]**\n",
"score": 1382
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"body": "Anonymous deleted user, geraffes are so dumb: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8aqjh/awww_this_is_just_too_sad_pic/c08pp5z)]**\n",
"score": 1350
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"body": "[MarlonBain](http://www.reddit.com/user/MarlonBain), The Man-Raptor Comment: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/87e37/how_do_i_go_about_starting_a_romantic/c08g6oi)]**\n",
"score": 1337
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"body": "[nraustinii](http://www.reddit.com/user/nraustinii), This isn't Twitter: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/8eyy3/heres_the_christain_douchebag_chad_farnan_who_is/c092j8m?context=1)]**\n\n*Note: the original parent comment was an offensive phrase that was changed just now after the voting opened. Click \"[show comments]\" below for more information.*",
"score": 1092
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"body": "[akatherder](http://www.reddit.com/user/akatherder), The most attended bag: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/87slx/airport_security_sir_luggage_must_be_attended_at/c08hke7)]**\n",
"score": 970
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whole wheat flour vs white flour | does anyone know if using whole wheat instead of white flour makes a difference in rising time for bread dough? i've tried to make bread by following the easy bread youtube video instructions posted a week ago and its been doughy in the middle both times i've made it. the first time someone put the bread in the fridge when i left it out to rise over night so i thought that was the problem. my second attempt was better, but was still doughy. any suggestions? sad that an easy bread recipe is causing me so much aggravation | 24 | [
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"body": "A few things. Exchanging all the white flour for all the whole wheat flour without changing anything else is usually inadvisable. Whole wheat contains the wheat bran which yeast take a little longer to break down so gluten development is slower. I would suggest exchanging a portion of the white flour for wheat, but not all of it. Additionally, make sure you are kneading the bread enough. A properly kneaded loaf should \"windowpane\" meaning that if you cut off a small portion and stretch it, it should stretch enough to be translucent before tearing. \n\ntl;dr Don't use all whole wheat flour in a bread recipe designed for white flour",
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"body": "I used to bake whole wheat bread regularly, I suggest you add a little sugar, as whole wheat flour doesn't break down into glucose as easy as refined grain. You need to leave the bread to rise in a warm place, as close to body temp as possible (37.7 Celsius), I usually leave it in near a boiler. For best results knead it after letting it rise, and then rise it again (then knead it again!) You can also try adding some olive oil.\n\nYou should know it's ready when the outside is golden brown, if it's still doughy in the middle but looks cooked on the outside, I'd recommend using a lower temperature for longer.",
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"body": "Because I like my bread dark and nutty, but also fluffy, I've learned to add gluten to breads with a higher whole wheat ratio. \n\nYou can buy vital wheat gluten separately to add to bread when you knead it. The added gluten does what white flour does, while maintaining the flavor of the whole wheat flour. You'll never get bread as fluffy as an all-white loaf, but it definitely helps with density.",
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"body": "Whole wheat flour will usually require a bit of additional water because the bran in the flour absorbs a little bit of it and makes the dough a touch drier as a whole. Also, the bran acts a bit like a razor blade when the dough is forming and will cut some of the gluten strands being formed and the dough is not as 'strong' as a result when rising and baking, and you risk loaves and buns being smaller and more dense than desired - and just generally more unattractive. You don't want to over work the dough, and you don't want to underwork it as it just isn't as forgiving as regular white strong flour doughs (although it isn't hard to get a nice whole wheat dough by any means either). You can add a touch more yeast and/or sugar if you like, but you might need to watch out for the final lift in the oven (and it can change the crumb to being a bit more porous) or you can just let it proof a little longer if you have a good proofing setup. Experimenting is half the fun.",
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"body": "My mother makes the BEST wheat bread loves. We've tried recipes with 100% whole wheat flour and it never works out. You have to have a mix of white and wheat to make a good bread. So here's her recipe. These quantities are all estimates. You don't need to be too exact about them. \n\n* 2-3c whole wheat flour\n* 1/2c flaxseed meal (you can leave it out but this is the secret ingredient)\n* 1tbsp yeast\n* 1tbsp kosher salt\n* 1tbsp sugar\n* 3-4c warm water\n* Optional: 1/4 - 1/2c sunflower seeds, oatmeal, fennel seeds, and/or whatever you like\n* white flour (to be added last)\n\nDissolve the yeast and sugar in some lukewarm water. \n\nMix everything but the white flour in a great big bowl. Knead it while in the bowl. Then add more and more white flour until you get a good dough. (It could be as much as 5 cups of white flour.) \n\nWhile still in the bowl, make a ball out of the dough, coat it with a bit of oil, then cover with plastic wrap (the oil is so it doesn't stick to the plastic wrap), and cover with a towel on top. \n\nPut in a dry dark place like a turned-off oven and let rise 2 hrs. \n\nPunch it down and make 2 or 3 loafs.\n\nLet rise for 45min to an hour.\n\nBake 400F for 45 minutes.\n\nTry to let it cool before you eat it. You only notice the flavor when it's cool and if you slice it too early all the steam will escape. I hope this helps your bread-making endeavors!",
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I am 20 and work at a nursing home for alzheimers patients who are competely non self-reliant. AMA | I work as a "nurse" at a nursing home for alzheimers patients with varying degrees of alzheimers and dementia. Some of these cannot take care of themselves because of the mental problems that come with the disease while others are there only because they are physically unable to take care of themselves | 21 | [
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"body": "My step father just died from lewy body Alzheimers this weekend. its the most godawful shitty disease ever. He started to be effected right about retirement age. 58 or so, started to lose words, then over about 5 years was hard to understand sometimes, couldn't do some simple tasks like plug in a lamp (he was an electrician) then slowly slided down to hell. The only one he could talk to was my brothers dog. about 5 years ago he started beating on my mother and we forced her hand into getting him into a home. \n\nThat home took almost all of her money and left her about penniless. They provided great service but the cost per month of health care is rediculous. America should be embarassed. What does your organization cost a month for care? Let those in europe and canada know, because its a fucking embarassment. \n\nThey took his entire pension and his entire social security and she still had to pay out of pocket. And as he slowly went blind, totally incontinent and eventually even unable to walk, he forgot how to see went blind then he fucking forgot how to eat and to swallow and he died, taking the last $10,000 she had to bury him. \n\nFuck this shitty fucking disease. 16 fucking years he suffered with it. A life long government employee, volunteer fireman.. what a waste.",
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"body": "I'm really hoping this doesn't sound mean, I don't want it too. People I've met with jobs like this typically have good senses of humor in my experience, so....\n\nCould you please tell some (funny) stories about some of the patients' mental problems (funny things said, etc). Thanks!",
"score": 9
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"body": "I worked as a care specialist in an Alzheimer's community one summer during high school (about 10 years ago). It's tough work! Couple of my memorable moments + observations:\n\n1) I'll echo your thoughts: the whole bathing / bathroom / accident clean-up definitely is tough to do. There was this one gal that was in the wing I was taking care of that just HATED everyone; residents and helpers included. Really hard to help wipe someone who is hitting / slapping you.\n\n2) There was a range of personalities. One gal usually just sat there, doing a knitting pattern with her hands with no knitting supplies for hours on end. Another told me, as I was helping her get changed, brush her teeth and get ready to bed that a stuffed animal told her that it was going to kill her. Another gal always wanted a \"handkerchief\"; I would give her a tissue for her and she would stuff it up her sleeve to keep for later. Five minutes later, she would ask for a handkerchief and I would tell her she had one in her sleeve and she would always exclaim, \"Now, how did THAT get there?\" Was quite sad.\n\n3) Several gals were very enamored by male workers and would either call us their husband or lover or whatever. Usually, you would walk away, come back five minutes later and usually they stopped.\n\nThis all being said, it was the most rewarding and hardest summer job I had done. It's a sad situation and you definitely associate them and treat them like your own grandma / grandpa.",
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"body": "[Is there a fake bus stop outside to catch the patients who try to leave?](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2071319/Fake-bus-stop-keeps-Alzheimers-patients-from-wandering-off.html)",
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"body": "What would you estimate is the percentage of staff that take advantage of the patients' conditions, if any?",
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"body": "Do any of the Alzheimer's patients have moments where they remember pieces of their lives they had forgotten and you have to kind of explain to them where they are and why?",
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"body": "I worked security in a nursing home once. During the night shift the nurses would wait until the exact time they HAD to make their required rounds to change the patients. Even though everyone could smell the odor of shit down the hall. The things I saw made me vow to NEVER put any relatives in a nursing home (or myself for that matter). \n\nDid you witness that particular kind of thing? And what other kind of abuses?",
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Hey /r/apple, I need some help.... | I have been watching my hard drive space because I'm debating how much I plan to dedicate to Windows 7 via boot camp. I was hovering around 330GB last night. Today, I magically lost about 8GB and I haven't downloaded anything more than a Thelonious Monk album in that timeframe. How can I pinpoint what the hell is going on? (I currently do not use Time Machine, by the by.)
**UPDATE**
So thanks for your input, folks. I did something retarded, noticing a large 4GB file that I wasn't aware of (it was sleepimage), so I wiped it out, as well as several swapfiles. Not sure what the end result to my computer shall be, and pretty sure that wasn't my original issue, but such is life.
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"body": "Could be swap, could be application caches, could be anything, really.\n\n sudo find -x / -newermt '24 hours ago'\n\nwill list everything on your startup volume modified within the last 24 hours. You can also use a tool like [GrandPerspective](http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/) to see what’s taking up room.\n\nOr you could just kick Windows to the curb and not worry about it at all.",
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Final round of voting: Submission of the Year
| Vote for as many finalists as you want.
The list of nominees who didn't make the cut can be viewed [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/algxt/nominate_submission_of_the_year/). | 105 | [
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"body": "[MrGrim](http://www.reddit.com/user/MrGrim) announces imgur.com: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7zlyd/my_gift_to_reddit_i_created_an_image_hosting/)]**\n",
"score": 2364
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"body": "[DrMartyMcFly](http://www.reddit.com/user/DrMartyMcFly), 10 years from now I am a scientist working at the Large Hadron Collider: **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9z4d5/10_years_from_now_i_am_a_scientist_working_at_the/)]**\n",
"score": 1727
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"body": "[kickme444](http://www.reddit.com/user/kickme444), Would anyone be interested in a reddit gift exchange (secret santa)? **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a2xy8/would_anyone_be_interested_in_a_reddit_gift/)]**\n",
"score": 1467
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"body": "[prehack](http://www.reddit.com/user/prehack), I hate my job... **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/97jht/i_hate_my_job/)]**\n",
"score": 1081
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"body": "[trogo](http://www.reddit.com/user/trogo), What's the most bachelor thing you have ever done? **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/9q7qk/whats_the_most_bachelor_thing_you_have_ever_done/)]**\n",
"score": 776
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"body": "[SisforEskimo](http://www.reddit.com/user/SisforEskimo), What is the official name for those mirror disco balls, if there is one? **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/a8a2v/what_is_the_official_name_for_those_mirror_disco/)]**",
"score": 752
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"body": "[humanistharlot](http://www.reddit.com/user/humanistharlot), Hitler finally loses his patience with reddit memes **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/9ntrz/hitler_finally_loses_his_patience_with_reddit/)]**\n",
"score": 727
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"body": "[justonewordforyou](http://www.reddit.com/user/justonewordforyou), In case you missed it: TV host Mike Rowe ('Dirty Jobs') responding to a redditor's request that he stop sleeping with his wife in her dreams. **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/abp4a/in_case_you_missed_it_tv_host_mike_rowe_dirty/)]**\n",
"score": 703
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"body": "[andrewinmelbourne](http://www.reddit.com/user/andrewinmelbourne), Open your front door. Take a picture of what you see and comment with your location and time. **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/8y47f/just_to_break_the_monotony_here_is_a_selfpics/)]**\n",
"score": 642
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"body": "[lutusp](http://www.reddit.com/user/lutusp), IAmA little difficult to describe. Designed part of the Space Shuttle, wrote \"Apple Writer\", retired at 35, sailed solo around the world. **\\[[link](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9xgnd/iama_little_difficult_to_describe_designed_part/)]**\n",
"score": 564
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Final round of voting: Moderator of the Year
| Vote for as many finalists as you want.
The list of nominees who didn't make the cut can be viewed [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/alktn/nominate_moderator_of_the_year/). | 51 | [
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"body": "[kickme444](http://reddit.com/user/kickme444) for [/r/SecretSanta](http://reddit.com/r/SecretSanta)\n",
"score": 733
},
{
"body": "[redGPz](http://www.reddit.com/user/redGPz) for [/r/SuicideWatch](http://reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch)\n",
"score": 461
},
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"body": "[krispykrackers/](http://www.reddit.com/user/krispykrackers/) for [/r/AskReddit ](http://reddit.com/r/AskReddit)\n",
"score": 314
},
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"body": "[SouljaBoySucks](http://www.reddit.com/user/SouljaBoySucks) for [/r/EmmaWatson/](http://reddit.com/r/EmmaWatson/)\n",
"score": 284
},
{
"body": "[aennil](http://reddit.com/user/aennil) for [/r/HappyBirthday/](http://reddit.com/r/HappyBirthday/)\n",
"score": 115
},
{
"body": "[andrewinmelbourne](http://reddit.com/user/andrewinmelbourne) for [/r/WTF](http://reddit.com/r/WTF)\n",
"score": 101
}
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Final round of voting: Novelty Account of the Year
| Vote for as many finalists as you want.
The list of nominees who didn't make the cut can be viewed [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/alhh3/nominate_novelty_account_of_the_year/). | 81 | [
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"body": "[JokeExplainer](http://www.reddit.com/user/JokeExplainer) / [Joke-Explainer](http://www.reddit.com/user/Joke-Explainer)\n",
"score": 1404
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Dear honest Redditors, how often do you lie to your superiors at work? | I would especially like to hear accounts of jobs where lying is just sort of business as usual. Let's include fibbing, gross exaggeration, and noble deception in our definition of what a lie is.
I've been at my job for less than a year, and I don't recall yet having to lie or mislead any of my superiors. For past jobs my rule has always been only to lie to my superiors as much as they are lying to me. If I have a manager who is really honest and up-front about things I try to treat him or her the same way. | 8 | [
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"body": "Well when they ask something like \"what have you been working on today?\"\n\nI don't say \"my comment karma\"\n\n...so, a lot I guess.",
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"body": "It's really hard to manage expectations if you lie to your boss. Maybe sometimes if you're a bit behind and know that you're going to catch back up on a project, but it's way to easy to let things snowball once you start fibbing.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Not ever... I learned long ago that lying isn't worth it. If you screw up you'll get much more respect for owning up to it. Same thing goes for getting pulled over. \r\n\r\n\"Do you know why I pulled you over\" \"Probably because I was speeding?\" and not a single ticket yet.",
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Love Imgur? Want to help them? take a second or two to optimize your image before you upload it. | From what I see, most images uploaded to imgur are unoptimized. Many are scans or digital photos of poor quality / high resolution / max JPG quality - etc.
SO here's an idea: next time, try to optimize your image, before you upload an image to imgur.
Typical popular images at imgur require gigabytes of bandwidth - optimizing an image you make can easily cut bandwidth by half or more:
Convert it to the best type (PNG, GIF, JPG, etc)
Resize it to the best resolution / size - till you achieve the minimum filesize / resolution required, while still retaining original quality.
This will take a few seconds for you, and easily save half or more of what it costs to host the image :) | 270 | [
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"body": "example:\n\n[Original image](http://imgur.com/IDNI5) - a fine artwork by [humansmartbomb](http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/aist7/hey_reddit_im_the_guy_who_drew_that_pic_of_his/)\n\nSize? 291kb\n\n[Above image re-saved with 70% compression](http://imgur.com/iOPHZ)\n\nSize? 73kb\n\nCan you spot a major difference between the two? Sure if you look closely you can see JPG artifacts, but remember, this is almost 1/4 the size of the original.\n\nAs you can see, the original image required 20GB\n\nif this version was used, it would be about 5-6GB\n\nSo lets say that most images could be reduced by at least half. That would mean [MrGrim](http://www.reddit.com/user/mrgrim) server bill would significantly go down - this would be nearly as nice as paypal'ing him money. \n\nedit: maybe MrGrim could consider adding a script of some sort which would give users an option to **resize their image / offer different sizes / saving quality - thereby saving bandwidth that way?**\n\nSomething as simple as an **optimize this image** option - which is ticked by default - I'm sure 99% of people would be OK with that - and there can be a link to the original for anyone who wants to view it?\n\nedit2: Above is a poor example on my part as the image is a professional artwork (apologies to its creator).",
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"body": "I use this awesome tool: [Riot - Radical Image Optimization Tool](http://luci.criosweb.ro/riot/)\n\nIt does everything you just said in a simple program... even allows you to compare awesomeness.",
"score": 27
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"body": "> The maximum non-animated file size you can upload is 10MB. However, if the image is over 1MB then it will automatically be compressed or resized to 1MB, for better viewing on the net. The maximum animated file size (both GIF and PNG) is 2MB.\n\nUhm.. What does this do then?",
"score": 10
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"body": "How about the opposite. I am tired of seeing images of text uploaded as low resolution, poor quality jpegs. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "I love Imgur like a woman.\n\nI only use it to upload into it when I feel like it, or to look at, and never visit otherwise.",
"score": 5
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"body": "XP users: [Image Resizer Powertool](http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx)\n\nThose of you using better operating systems, you probably already know where to get your fixes.",
"score": 4
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"body": "The site owner should write a simple GD or Imagemagick script that runs in the background and optimizes large / uncompressed images. This is very simple and wouldn't need to run at time of upload.\n",
"score": 4
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"body": "I agree whole-heartedly with this. Images should always be optimized. Before I upload anything to imgur, I run the image through ImageOptim.app and cut down the excess size. Especially after Adobe web image saves.",
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"body": "I'm sure Mr.Grim doesn't really care or is pretty aware of this common fact (I mean he created the site from scratch). I understand you trying to help, but you should contact Mr.Grim with this question instead of a blind leading the blind approach.",
"score": 3
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"body": "How about implementing a client-side tool in Java or Flash that does this. It could try converting the selected image to both png and jpg and alert the user if one is significantly better. Or, it could show both, and ask the user which looks better.\n\nI'm guessing the people who know/care enough to read qgyh2's post are already aware of resolution and the difference between jpg/png.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Have a checkbox, \"let us optimize this image for you\" when uploading, and automate it. People are lazy.",
"score": 3
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"body": "If you have a few seconds more you can use [optipng](http://optipng.sourceforge.net/) to improve the compression of your pngs",
"score": 3
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"body": "You can also donate money via paypal, but don't do as I did and overdraft your account. My $20 cost me an extra $105. ",
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Reddit Design Gurus: Help with band logo? | Hey! Thanks to anyone who takes the time to help out. I am trying to make a cool logo for my band, and need some help. I have asked all my friends who are good at graphics and designing for some help, but they all seem busy I guess because I never hear back from the, so....Reddit, can you help?
Like I said, I need to make a logo for my band, but not really good at this sort of thing. I have some minimal photoshop skills, so if there are some good walk through's somewhere, I could would probably be good. But I can't even really figure out where to begin. Every time I try to make something it looks like it just came out of 1994 MS Paint.
My (The Driftin Outlaw Band) band plays Texas outlaw country music. [Here](http://www.myspace.com/thedriftinoutlawband) is our myspace right now, and as you can see we are kinda lacking on the artwork side.
Thanks for anyone who replies!
**EDIT**
*Wow, I didn't expect anyone to give a shit, but you guys are awesome.* | 7 | [
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"body": "If your trying to make a logo make sure you use illustrator instead of photoshop. The best place to start with a logo is with pen and paper. Start by drawing out as many ideas as you can and then find something that has the most potential and then go to the computer. ",
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"body": "Hmm...my post disappeared. Love the music. Good ol' whiskey drinkin music. I'm working on something at the moment.\n\n**EDIT:** \nOk, this is very rough, but what do you think about [this](http://imgur.com/r5rKA). I've got lots of other bits to do tonight, but if you like it, I can tidy it up when I've got more time. \n \nThings I would improve would be the tracking, leading (getting the characters to sit better together), and add some unique flair to it. [This](http://burlesquedesign.com/mike/somuchpileup/buffalobill.jpg) is was a source of inspiration, I'd like to carry over the style of ligatures, and maybe even work in a photo of the band. \n \nSo, what do you think?",
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"body": "I fooled around a little. Here's a [B&W mockup](http://i.imgur.com/EwyRP.png), and [an example implementation](http://imgur.com/RuZ9b.jpg).\n\nLet me know if you like it, and I'll send you the source files.",
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Where do you guys find your DNB? | I've always had a hard time finding drum and bass downloads. Torrents usually only have popular artists, well, public trackers that is, direct downloads are harder to come by too.
Point being, legal or not, where do you guys get your fix? You have any artist suggestions too? | 7 | [
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"body": "You gotta keep looking. Here's a few places to check first: \n\nhttp://www.bassdrive.com/v2/\n\nhttp://www.dnb-sets.de/\n\nhttp://netmix.com/\n\nhttp://www.mixdepot.net/browse/style/dnb\n\nhttp://www.planetdnb.com/archives.html\n\nhttp://www.newmixes.com/category/dnb\n\nhttp://www.dnbradio.com/archive/\n\n\nHope this helps\n",
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"body": "Try and pay for it when I can these days, when I didn't have money though:\n\nalt.binaries.music.jungle on usenet. Haven't checked it recently but there used to be a flood every month of every single release. Probably got over 100gigs of singles I haven't even listened to yet from 2004-2008.\n\n[DNBFORCES](http://forces.sytes.net/) - fat lil site for keeping up to date with all the releases. Basically an .nfo listing, whack some of the release names into Google and you'll get results.\n\nProps to sour, they've been doing this for donkeys.\n\nAlso #dnbarena on efnet if that's still around. They used to have all the latest shit.",
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So we made a site. More help needed | I posted a query as to whether anyone around here would be interested in setting up a site for Linux software the other day. And hell's bells, we've only gone and done it. Kind users offered hosting, administrative duties, and many more promised to write content! The site we've made is [linuxspin.org](http://linuxspin.org), and at the moment it's very beta, no, alpha. But a fair few of you have signed up already to write reviews and articles about applications you use. But as I expected, not much actual content has been submitted yet. So here is a plea from me for people to go right ahead and sign up.
New users get automatic "contributor" status at the site, which allows you to submit anything you damned please, but not publish. A gang of really-committed folk are going to get "editor" abilitrons, which allow them to publish anything they damned well please, including the works from contributors. Taking on these editorial oversight duties nets you a gmail-powered @linuxspin.org email address, if you wish to have one. Although don't be fooled, editors are expected to submit content themselves, you know.
Never mind how the site looks for now or who's doing the admin work. Whilst that stuff is important, honestly we can fudge around with that as we go along. What we really need is content. And plenty of it. So, if you want your name in big lights, register at the site. Any other queries, post them here or head on over to our subreddit HQ at [r/reddux/](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddux) where there are examples of suitable content, vague guidelines as to what sort of material is acceptable (very vague; no rules), and other useful stuff. Other than that, there isn't much more to say, so, yes, any assistance would be great. Thanks!
__Edit:__ join us on IRC at #linuxspin on freenode. | 9 | [
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"body": "> What we really need is content.\n\nWhat you need to do should be obvious -- search for suitable applications and list them on your site. No one is going to object to your listing a bunch of Linux apps that are listed elsewhere.\n\nYou may want people to list apps exclusively on your site, but this is unrealistic and isn't going to happen.\n",
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"body": "FYI, your www.linuxspin.org is an open directory and should probably direct to your wordpress site instead.",
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Are there any serious disadvantages in moving into a trailer park? | My friends and I have recently moved (after being robbed) and we are looking at moving into a trailer park just a mile from the university we attend because it's cheaper than an apartment and very close to our school.
**Update**: For clarification: the trailer park we're looking at is in the west Michigan area near Grand Valley State University. | 24 | [
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"body": "Own or rent the unit? Nothing wrong with living in a mobile home. I bought one as a sophmore and sold it 5 years later for about what I paid for it. There will be monthly space rental fees even if you own it. \n\nUtilities can be high. As another poster says you MUST pay attention to keeping the water and sewer connections above freezing in winter. The water lines in the straucture must be protected as well. If you rent make sure the owner steps you through how and were to check and protect the water lines. There is a skirt aroudn the bottom of the trailer and you may have to get in/under there to take care of stuff. No big deal if you are handy. A trailer water heater is perhaps smaller than what you are used too. And it is probably electric so you may have to get used to shorter showers.\n\nIf you live where there are tornados then be sure to find out what kind of shelter the park offers. You do NOt want to be in a trailer when a tornado comes trough. They are strapped down but not well enough to protect humans. It just helps keep them from flying away.\n\nPlease realize if you move into a trailer/mobile home park it is just like moving into any neighborhood of houses. It is not at all like living in an apartment - especially a student apartment. People who own their mobile homes are very concerned about keeping the neighborhood nice (keeping the value up and quality of life up). So you will have to take care of the place/yard/snow/etc. Keep things clean. Keep the noise down. etc. I know some places are run down but most are filled with families who see this as a way to get a better set up than an apartment without the cost of a house. \n\nSo yeah do it - but only if the place looks well cared for and if you are able to take care of a house and its yard. I was married and we had a child so it was perfect for us. Nice neighbors and other kids. Best of luck.",
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"body": "I think the main disadvantage is that you will be living in a fucking trailer park.\n\n\n\n\nOn the upside, you won't have to care about personal hygiene as much.\n",
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"body": "1. Major Heat Loss: Since you didn't mention where you are, I'll let you know that if your in an area where the temperature falls below freezing, your going to have to heat up the water pipes by heat loss through the floor of the minihome. Thats right, your water pipes are exposed to the elements and your going to have to pay dearly to keep the damn thing warm. \n\n2. Your not building equity and can not use the minihome as a source of equity as you do not own the land it is on. Atleast that is how it is in Canada. Your local laws may differ.\n\n3. Park Rules. Some parks have different restrictions on what you can and can't do while living in the park. Some for instance stipulate that you can't do any car repair in your driveway/dooryard. Other rules that I find annoying is the number of vehicles that are permitted per lot.\n\n4. Retarded Speed bumps. Serisiously, I have seen speed bumps that cause damage to normal cars at less then the posted limits.\n\n5. You might actually start understanding 'The Trailer Park Boys' on a deeper level.\n",
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"body": "* You might start to find your sister sexy.\n* You might replace your kids milk with beer.\n* Cigarette burns might randomly appear all over your body/things.\n* You might grow pencil thin facial hair.\n* Poor people.",
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"body": "I live in Mobile Home park. I guess it's a notch up from a Trailer Park. I have very low overhead, nice neighbors, and I live in a awesome area. Frankly, I love where I live. Then again, it's California so I don't have the heating issues mentioned already. \r\n\r\nSome of the park rules suck and like anywhere there are some undesirable meth heads running around, but all in all, mobile home parks are normally pretty sweet.",
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"body": "Do you live in an area that gets a lot of tornadoes? If you do, then that's a pretty serious disadvantage.",
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"body": "So you're moving because you were robbed and you're moving to a trailer park? You're going to get robbed again.",
"score": 5
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"body": "You know, I was looking at moving into a mobile home park. I'm also a very big NASCAR fan and follow the sport very closely. I have the stereotypical giant front teeth, and also bad hair that's much longer in the back than in the front (the early makings of a mullet).\n\nI kind of hope I'm not a redneck in the making.",
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"body": "\"Who in this park, or even in the whole world, doesn't have problems? Who doesn't have a drink too many times once in a while and maybe even winds up passed out in their own driveway, pissing themselves? Who doesn't drink too much sometimes or who doesn't have a puff from time to time? And who doesn't have problems with the people they love? This is our home. This is our community. \"",
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"body": "People who are up their own ass will look down at you. I just reread my sentence and am being mindblown by logistics of being inside an ass whilst looking down at someone",
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"body": "Serious answer, it depends on the trailer park. I've seen some that were damn nice, gated community level nice. I've seen some I wouldn't let my dog loose in for fear he won't make it out alive.\n\nGo drive around the park, see how you feel inside your car, if you feel comfortable, park somewhere and walk around, preferably in the afternoon when people are likely to be home and out and about, you'll quickly get a feel for the neighborhood.\n\nI'd live in a nice trailer park LONG before I'd live in \"most\" apartment complexes I've been in.",
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"body": "Of course, it depends on the park in question, but my experiences with living in a trailer park during college were great.\n\nI had lived in a mind-numbing apartment complex my first two years. During that time I never actually had a conversation with a neighbor. Then I rented a \"unit\" in a trailer park and my whole social life changed. Not only did I meet my neighbors, we all hung out together, would build outside fires during the winter, cook on the grill together, you name it. Thirty years later, I still stay in touch with a few of those folks from the trailer park. Seemed like it had a sense of community not found in an apartment complex. ",
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"body": "You know, Livin' in a trailer park offers a lot of difficulties. Number one being, you're livin' in a trailer park.",
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"body": "Really the only disadvantages you're dealing with is the stigma people associate when they hear trailer park (white trash, inbreds, robberies, close living with neighbors who scream and yell, etc.) I've never lived in a trailer park and I'm not knocking anyone who has, but do your homework before you make any decisions. \r\n\r\n* Since you mentioned that you're renting, make sure you look into renter's insurance since you aren't covered by your landlord's insurance. [Renters insurance](http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/Moneyinyour20s/P36957.asp) is your own safety blanket in the instance if you are robbed again, along with other worst case scenarios you could run into. \r\n\r\n* What are the basic amenities included with the trailer? Make sure a working refrigerator is provided (or if you have your own, bring it in) but if you have to buy your own appliances, look elsewhere. A landlord is responsible to provide/replace necessities such as ovens and refrigerators.\r\n\r\n* **Read the fine print before you sign anything**. Address any/all concerns with your landlord and understand your lease inside and out.\r\n",
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Hey Foodit, can you give me some great cheesecake recipes, please? | I need to make a cheesecake for a friend's birthday party this weekend (it was her special request), and I've never made one before. What are your best cheesecake recipes? She prefers plain ol' delicious cheescake, but if you have special flavored ones I'd be interested to see those too, for later use. Thanks! | 18 | [
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"body": "\"Plainest-of-the-Plain\" Naked Cheesecake\n\nThis is a dense, smooth, classic North American style cheesecake. \n\nEquipment: 9'' or 10'' springform (use the larger pan if you use the larger amount of sour cream), heavy-duty aluminum foil, baking parchment, larger pan for a water bath\n\n* 4 250g (8 oz) packages Philly\n* 4 eggs\n* 1/2 cup sugar or vanilla sugar to taste\n* Vanilla to taste (I would use about a teaspoon of double-strength Tahitian extract)\n* 1 tsp grated fresh lemon zest\n* 1-2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (or to taste)\n* 1-3 cups sour cream (depends on how firm vs creamy you want it)\n* Optional liqueur flavouring to taste (a little kirsch is good)\n\nTake apart the springform pan and cut a double-layer of parchment to fit the bottom. Spray or lightly grease the pan, put in the parchment, spray the parchment. Cover the bottom and at least 1 inch up the sides with a double layer of foil. (If you only have regular foil, use at least 3 layers.)\n\nPreheat oven to 325F.\n\nMix all cheesecake ingredients in a food processor. You can do it in batches, but mix everything together in a large bowl so you can taste and correct the flavouring and sweetness. It's easier if the cream cheese is at room temperature, and if you add the sugar to the cream cheese, it will soften it (one of those mysterious cooking alchemy things) and make it easier to mix in the liquid ingredients. If you don't have a food processor and are motivated mix it by hand. An electric mixer is the last choice because it incorporates too much air, which is the enemy of creaminess.\n\nPour batter into the prepared springform, and set the springform in the water bath pan, set on oven rack. Carefully pour in boiling water to a depth of half an inch. \n\nBake the cake until the centre looks set when you jiggle it, typically 60-70 minutes. Run a knife around the edge as soon as you take it out of the oven (this prevents cracks by ensuring the cake can shrink instead of splitting as it contracts). Chill several hours or overnight.\n\nTo unmold, remove foil, run a knife around the edge again, carefully unbuckle the pan sides. Set a plate on top of the cake (centre it carefully; once you turn it over it will be hard to shift) and flip. You can use a spatula to smooth the top and sides of the cake.\n\nTo add a crust, use a 10'' or 11'' springform, my favourite crust is about 2 1/2 cups crushed English digestive biscuits and about half a cup of toasted ground almonds tossed with about half a cup of melted butter and a dash of cinnamon. Press onto the bottom and sides of the pain, and omit the parchment, foil, and water bath. Chill the crust well before adding the batter if you have time.\n\nChill the cake well before removing from the pan.\n\n**Springform Tip**: What seems \"natural\" to a lot of beginners is actually to put the bottom in upside-down. The correct way to assemble a springform is with the tiny raised sides of the pan's bottom **pointing down**. If you put it in the other way, your cake will sit in that shallow depression which largely defeats the purpose of having a pan with removable sides. \n\nMy most popular \"Fancy\" cheesecake is the White Chocolate Raspberry swirl with Mousseline buttercream and fresh raspberry glaze. I don't have time to post the details now but if you want them let me know and I'll post as soon as I can.\n\nEdit: Typo",
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"body": "This [Mascarpone Cheesecake](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Mascarpone-Cheesecake-108903) is one of the best cheesecakes I've ever had. I'm pretty sure I did it with graham cracker rather than the vanilla wafers that are in the recipe, but either way it's delicious.",
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"body": "For a tried, tested, and true recipe I would go with Ina Garten. May not sound exciting, but her recipes are simple and good, and most importantly, they work.\n\nYou can just as easily make this without the raspberry stuff.... it came out great for me.\n\nhttp://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina-garten/raspberry-cheesecake-recipe/index.html",
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Any good books out there that cover seasoning on a more theoretical level? | I'm looking for a book that's lighter on recipes and heavier on theory. I'm starting to do more and more original recipes, or finding one that I kind of like but needs improvement. But I find myself at a loss as to where to go. I want something that lays out the basic theory of seasoning food, things that tend to taste good together and why. How to properly balance flavors, etc. Is there anything out there that does this well? | 6 | [
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"body": "[This](http://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Essential-Creativity-Imaginative/dp/0316118400) looks like a good place to start. You might try searching for flavor profiles - that should give you a sound basis for any recipes you might want to tweak. Good luck.",
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Does anyone know how to fix a broken icon in the Windows 7 taskbar? | recently, i encountered a bug with photoshop (license had expired) that had me on the phone with adobe tech support for 2 hours. i ended up uninstalling and reinstalling the program twice. while this eventually got me back up and running with photoshop, it had the unfortunate effect of breaking the photoshop icon in the taskbar:
http://imgur.com/90nYE
i've tried rebuilding the desktop and taskbar icons, and i've tried reinstalling photoshop (for a 3rd time). none of these solutions has fixed the problem, and i don't know whether it's a windows issue, or a photoshop issue.
it seems to me that if i could simply locate the icon image being used and replace it, i would be home free, but i suspect that the icon is not just an .ico file nested 5 folders deep somewhere, but is actually stored in the photoshop.exe (or another file) itself. however, i've looked inside photoshop.exe for the icon, but every icon stored in that .exe seems to be present and accounted for.
if anyone else has encountered this problem and knows how to fix it, would you be so kind as to let me know? even after nearly a month, i still have to pause while i'm scanning the taskbar to find photoshop, because there's no distinctive blue rectangle to draw my eye towards it.
thanks!
**EDIT:** thanks to arcsine and Posarius, my taskbar is now whole again. :-) | 3 | [
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"body": "Right-click it, unpin this item from the taskbar. Open Photoshop the ol' fashioned way, right-click in the taskbar, pin this item to the taskbar.",
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How many people cannot avoid multitasking in the bathroom now that they have a smartphone? | personally i usually play games. Bonus rounds occur if I manage to snag one of the bidets at Google. | 111 | [
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"body": "I love it when I'm in the shitter and my phone rings, especially if there are other people in the bathroom. I usually say really loud \"I CAN'T TALK NOW, I'M IN AN IMPORTANT MEETING\", then flush.",
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"body": "If you're taking a dump, you're multitasking. \n\nYou've got your sphincter operating faster than a princess Diana's paparazzi's camera's apperture, you've got your pee regulation, then keeping in mind to move your feet every once in a while so they don't go numb and you lose feedback near the hole and a million other things.\n\nIn short, taking a dump alone is the closest you'll ever get to a united Europe under your rule.",
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"body": "It should take you no longer than 45 seconds or so to take a crap. If you are sitting there any longer, I suggest you rethink your eating habits.",
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"body": "While reading this thread I succumbed to the urge to poo(The following will be done from the toilet.) I usually take my laptop with me, a 16 incher (the laptop screen probably not the poo.) I light a candle and watch Battlestar Galactica. Cause Battlestar Galactica impresses the shit out of me.",
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"body": "My best ever achievement was to be pissing with a toothbrush in my mouth, talking on the phone and shutting off the bath tap at the same time so I could hear better.\n\nI can honestly say I know what it is like to be a woman, though to be fair, a woman could have pulled that manoeuvre off with a child dangling from her hip.",
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"body": "Everyone does it but no one likes to admit it.\n\nMy last poo yielded a fire shield and a magical boomerang in LttP.",
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"body": "A couple of years ago I got a DS with mariokart and spent the next two years trying to beat every part of the game (I heard if you got gold medals on all the grand prix you get a star next to your name, which is false!). I really only played it in the bathroom and eventually came to call pooping \"doing a grand prix.\"",
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How Does One Get a Real Critique? | A few days ago, I posted a short story for critique and the only critique I got was a_girl saying that she found it difficult to read and that I "must like Cormac McCarthy". I kind of expected better from Reddit. I can take tough criticism. If the story is horrible, tell me. I was just wondering, how does one go about getting real criticism from redditors? Did I go about it wrong? I'm just curious. Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Wow. I've gotten a lot of great responses to this. Thanks for all the helpful, thoughtful comments. My faith in Reddit is restored. :) | 12 | [
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"body": "I doubt that you're going to get real criticism from Reddit. The collective phenomenon can be explained simply: providing criticism randomly doesn't generate the kind of reciprocative relationship that a workshop would. \n\nI provided a few criticisms several months ago, and then decided I wouldn't do it any more. The biggest reason for this is that writers on Reddit submit things that they acknowledge are 'incomplete', 'rough, early drafts', or 'something [they] just threw together. I would be willing to provide some criticism on a piece that the author has sincerely edited a half-dozen times, but that piece has not yet come across the writing subreddit as far as I know. ",
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"body": "r/writing would need to come up with a workshop system, complete with rules and so forth because what ends up happening (same as r/poetry) I give good feedback and either a. it gets ignored, b. it gets mocked, c. I put my stuff up and it gets ignored.\n\nI do belong to an online writer's group and there is all kinds of rules for reciprocal feedback, rules for the 'state' of the draft, back and forth, etc etc.",
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I hooked up my exercise bike to my xbox. Now burnout is awesome. [Videos and Schematics] | **Video 1** (first prototype, more gameplay footage): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-03o4dfQJ7w&feature=player_embedded
**Video 2** (second prototype): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIVXJpuOdSw&feature=player_embedded
**Instructions, schematics, code and photos**: http://projectexcitebike.blogspot.com/ | 566 | [
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"body": "Nice. This makes [my version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLwmCT6gB8k) look like it was built in the stone age.",
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"body": "I've been doing \"game biking\" for many years now. I started off with the CatEye gamebike, hooked up to a PS2.\n\nThe GameBike from cateye was a good start, but I don't recommend it, nor would I recommend any upright biking system for gaming. Why? A few reasons.\n\n1) I bought many dozens of games for it, but unfortunately most games are not suited to this kind of setup. For example in a GTA-style game there is simply too much stopping and reversing to create a true cardio workout.\n\n2) Racing games get boring really quickly, and when the game gets boring you start to notice the pain in your legs. So, the best games I found involve further interaction, such as shootouts with other racers. Motor Mayhem was my favorite game because of this.\n\n3) With an upright bike you usually need to support yourself using handlebars. Unfortunately this limits what you can do in a game. The gamebike had some special features like a button on the handlebar, and a gamepad in the middle of the handlebar area, but these didn't suffice for most games (because - again - most games are not designed for this).\n\n\nAfter a couple years on the gamebike I simply opted to purchase a recumbent bike, which frees yours hands completely so you can play regular video games easily using a wireless gamepad. I highly recommend the Schwinn 230 Recumbent Exercise Bike. When assembling it, take the display off of its pole and rest it on the unit near where your feet pedal - this way you can see the tv screen in front of you.\n\nYou may ask what motivation you then have to keep pedaling. For me at least, this isn't a problem. On the Schwinn bike I mentioned, you can set the difficulty so high that even if you pedal once a minute you would still be getting a good workout.\n\nI must say that gaming + biking is the absolute best way to go if you're a geek and want to get into shape. I easily do 50-60 minutes of cardio 6 days a week. The time just flies by. The downside is that I end up spending a lot of money on new games, since games go by quickly. But its worth it. I'm in the best shape of my life! :)",
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"body": "When I was a kid visiting Disney World, maybe 15 years ago, at Epcot Center they had a demo of an exercise bike hooked up to a Genesis playing a cycling game. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then, just a couple of years ago, I found one in the wild. It was locked up in the storage area of an eating disorders clinic I worked at. Unfortunately I discovered it just days before I left, and I never was able to find out who it belonged to so that I could pull it out and see if it still worked. More importantly, I wasn't able to find out if I could buy it since it had just been sitting in storage.",
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So, I know what /r/atheism thinks of the religions that are loudest, what does it think of the ones that keep to themselves and don't bother anyone? | I was thinking lately that you guys seem to enjoy picking on the easy targets (like christianity, islam, scientology, what have you) but the relatively obscure ones like unitarian universalism, buddhism, basically the ones that just want everyone to treat everyone else with decency and dignity, regardless of who they are, seem to be virtually unheard of.
So, I ask you to break free of the "Christians/Muslims/etc are silly" circlejerk and give your thoughts on the religions that can actually be reconciled with sanity.
Edit: I feel I should add that this is a genuine question, I'm honestly curious as to what you guys think here. I'll check the responses when I get home from work tonight. | 8 | [
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"body": "All religions are equally stupid. All religions are not equally dangerous. Don't make the mistake of thinking of buddists as quiet or non-violent. \r\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=buddhist+violence&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=",
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"body": "I've always been of the mindset that you can believe whatever you want. As long as you don't bother me. I don't want to be in your fictionally justified, socially acceptable cult. That doesn't mean that I'm not going to call you a moron for not requiring any proof.",
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"body": "Any mindset that makes a \"leap of faith\" requires that reason be abandoned and is potentially dangerous. Faith surrenders to the non-logical, non-critical part of our brain and makes us succeptible to the most non-rational ideas one can conceive. \r\n\r\nThe religions that take those dangerous, non-rational ideas into the public discourse and do the most damage, are the ones we scream loudest about. But they are all--at their root--equally flawed.",
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"body": "It is no business of anyone else's what I do in private, as long as I am not hurting anyone else. This should apply to everyone, for any activity whatsoever. As soon as you start intervening in politics, taking your religion public, or using it to commit a crime, that is when it will be publicly criticized and ridiculed.",
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"body": "There are no differences. Religions that do not bother anyone are just followed by people bidding their time until there are enough of them to become as loud, obnoxious and oppressive as the other ones.",
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"body": "My thought is that any religion that requires belief in something that is implausible is fundamentally flawed. That said, I do not feel the need to attack religions that promote sensible ideas, even if some of their basic tenets are implausible.",
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"body": "Most of the religions that Atheists (like me) don't attack also have relatively up to date views regarding scientific advancement. The reason Abrahamic religions are so easily targeted is because they are so clearly standing in the way of social advancement. And let's face it, everyone should hate Scientology. ",
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"body": "> \"Christians/Muslims/etc are silly\" circlejerk... \n\n*all* religions are silly. \n\nsupernatural beliefs dependent on faith, dogma, and divorcing oneself from the facts and evidence of reality are ridiculous. if said believers keep to themselves, they are less annoying, but no less wrong or gullible.\n\n> ... just want everyone to treat everyone else with decency and dignity, regardless of who they are...\n\nthat is humanism. rubbish about reincarnation, god, a unifying life force, or other mystical nonsense need not come along with it.",
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"body": "The problem is seldom the religion, but rather the religious. Problems arise when people get in a large group, and start saying things like think like us or you are going to Hell.",
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If/when you get stupidly in awe of the universe, what do you most get hung up on? | There was time that it'd keep me up at night knowing that the universe as I knew it was just that--the universe as I knew it from my point of view. And that when I die and stop perceiving, I have no guarantee that anything was ever real or a shared experience with others and it'll all disappear. | 133 | [
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"body": "I'm currently deployed to Afghanistan, sitting on a FOB in the middle of the Afghan dessert in the south. There are no lights here at night except the few that are on the FOB. no electricity except what we bring here. and this being a warzone the FOB is rather blacked out at night. when there is no moon out it is DARK. I'm from the Dallas/Ft Worth metropolitan area, a huge brightly lit urban mecca, i can see Orion's belt at night and that's it. but here, there are STARS, more stars than i thought i'd ever see short of being in the middle of the ocean. and i can see the milky way, with the naked eye. little thing to most people, but me, out here, truly awe inspiring.",
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"body": "(you probably all know this, but it's what always blows my mind)\n\nTake a grain of sand. Look at it. Now hold it out at arm's length. Get an idea of how big that is, how much of your field of view, percentage wise, is covered by that grain of sand. \n\nIn 1995, astronomers took the Hubble Space Telescope and pointed it a but of sky that was about the same size as that bit you obscured with a grain of sand. When they processed the image, [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HubbleDeepField.800px.jpg) is what they saw. In that image, are nearly 3000 galaxies. Not stars, but galaxies, each one containing hundreds of billions of stars.\n\nAll in a patch of sky the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. Do a little multiplication. Blows my mind every fucking time.\n\nTL;DR : Hubble Deep Field",
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"body": "I get hung up on the fact that we, mankind, have been able to figure anything out at all about how our universe works. The fact that we have figured out ways of studying atoms, gravitational fields, dark matter, black holes, and even the chemical makeup of planets millions of miles away from us is astounding to me.\n\nThen I remember that we are still only at the tip of potential scientific discovery. And I happily anticipate what we may find out in the future. I am not one to dwell on mortality; however, I wish that I may live forever, if only so that I may be witness to the vast knowledge that mankind will obtain over time.",
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"body": "Scale. The fact that things are so huge and far apart in space that they had to come up with a unit of measure which one unit is equal to the distance light travels in an entire year. WTF.\n\nThe fact that the sun is ~92 MILLION MILES away yet you cannot look directly at it without going blind and the heat radiating from it can burn your skin.",
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"body": "Trying to grasp where it all came from. I know there was the Big Bang, but what was there before that, and where did it come from? Also, the sheer size of some objects, and the distance between us and them. Plus, there has to be life somewhere else, probably a shit ton of it across the universe.",
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"body": "about 6 months ago i was sitting with some friends outside of our local costco eating some Heroically priced Hebrew national hot dogs when, the two frat bros in the table behind me had this conversation:\n\n\nFrat bro1:Dude, space is *Really* big.\n\nFrat bro2: yeah?\n\nFrat bro1:Yeah, its kinda freaking me out.",
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"body": "I'm always astounded by the fact that I'm here. Me. Specifically. Let me explain.\n\nThe universe was somehow created. That, in itself, is some kind of cosmic miracle of science. From that universe, which is ever expanding, a dinky little solar system was born, and in that dinky little solar system, there was this baby little planet. And then, somehow, on this little rock, all the right elements came together to create the basis for life. Somewhere, throughout billions of years of universe, a little cell was born. That cell grew and changed, and then there were organisms that didn't look like that one little cell anymore.\n\nAnimals, creatures, plants, *living* things. And from each of those things, a new one was created. They developed from one another. If just one condition had been different, humans might have two heads, or not exist, or hell -- Earth as we know it wouldn't exist. If just one little tiny detail wasn't spot on, *life* wouldn't exist on Earth.\n\nAnd then there's the development of living things into mammals, into people, into the creation of what is solely and uniquely you. If I had one ancestor that didn't survive a flu a thousand years ago, I might not exist as me. Yet again, just one small detail on the great canvas of the universe is the total makeup of what I am. \n\nI owe all of me to billions of years of growth and perfect timing.",
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"body": ">[Look again at that dot.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Pale_Blue_Dot.png)That's here, that's home, that's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every \"superstar,\" every \"supreme leader,\" every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.\n>\n>The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.\n>\n>Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.\n\n-Carl Sagan",
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"body": "Look at the sky and realize how small we are. Then look at the ground and realize how big we are.Then PARTY HARD! -Andrew WK\n \n",
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"body": "I was reading The Universe in a Nutshell, by Stephen Hawking, and The problem I kept running into is what is beyond the known universe? We don't know where it ends, because we can't travel faster than light. Also, we don't actually know what a black hole is. Is it a portal to another dimension? Just a big ball of nothing? ARRRRRGH!!! This is why I stopped reading. I got too many questions and not enough answers.",
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"body": "OK, so, the universe is 14(ish) billion years old. \r\n\r\nIts size, though, is estimated to be at least [93 billion light years](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe) in diameter.\r\n\r\nGiven that nothing moves faster than light, I just can't wrap my head around that.",
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"body": "That every time you look up at the sky, you are probably looking directly at thousands of ancient civilizations, millions or billions of light years away, but you cannot see them or contact them.\r\n\r\nThat everything we see is what it was in the past, and not what it is today.\r\n\r\nThat although light moves faster than anything else in the universe, it takes an hour just to reach Pluto. \r\n\r\nThat all the dominoes played out in such a way that we even exist. The odds of that are probably smaller than the odds of finding an atom in a vacuum larger than the known universe.",
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"body": "That something so stupidly awesome can contain such awesomely stupid people.\n\nThis is humorous; anything like the prior posts is just too depressing.",
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"body": "The fact that 96% of the universe ([dark matter and dark energy](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0106/New-findings-on-dark-energy-back-discarded-Einstein-theory)) is invisible.",
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"body": "The fact that it all ends one day in a cold death, with atoms spread so far apart that the average density of the universe is 0. Nothing we do will ever be meaningful because eventually even the universe turns into nothing.",
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"body": "The fact that my consciousness was transferred to my body, in this exact floating rock out of any of the other infinite possible locations in the universe, at this moment in time, out of any other possible points in time.\r\n\r\nThe idea of my consciousness somehow blows my mind, I mean, WHY AM I ME? And why now? I feel like it's much more than that, but really hard to put into words, but it makes me wonder if anything really exists.\r\n\r\nGuys, do you exist?",
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"body": "[10]\nSentience. How am I aware, and how can I know what other things are aware?\n\nIs my cat sentient? He seems to be.\n\nIs bacteria sentient? If it can detect light, is it \"seeing\" it the way I can see light through my eyelids? Or is it just reacting to it like a computer? Sure it doesn't have a brain, so it can't *think* about the light. But does that mean it can't *see*?\n\nBacteria probably aren't sentient, actually. I can't see things that don't go through my visual cortex, but I still react to them (my sleep patterns get programmed that way, etc). Everything is probably like that for things without brains.\n\nBut my cat. Can he see and think? I've seen him hesitate while making a decision. That makes me think he does. But my computer hesitates before making tough decisions too.\n\nI think sentience is the ability to remember previous internal states. I can remember what I was just thinking (usually). I think that's sentience. Maybe.",
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"body": "In the summer, my friends and I take a midnight trip to the beach. The closest city is at least an hour's drive, so there are no man made lights to dim the stars. We lie back in the soft grass, listen to the waves break on the shore and stare into the milky way. Few words are spoken, but someone always asks the question: \r\n\r\nWho the *fuck* keeps giving Tyler Perry shows‽",
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"body": "I always get hung up on the size of everything. It pushes my mind's ability to comprehend to it's breaking point when I hear that the universe is X size...how the hell did we figure this out? I know my question is likely explained somewhere, but I doubt I have the tools necessary to understand the explanation. \r\n\r\nOh and I have a difficult time putting distances/sizes into scale. There was that one site that showed a step by step comparison of the moon to the Earth to Mars to the Sun and so on, and within only a few slides, the Earth could not even be seen in comparison. By the end the size of the planet/star (don't know) was so large it was literally impossible for me to even imagine it in any real sense. I don't think I will ever be able to fully comprehend the massive scale that is necessary when discussing the universe, it is just phenominal. ",
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"body": "Scale. The edge of the observable universe is 46.5 billion light-years (~4.4x10^26 meters) away. The nucleus of an atom is on the femtometer scale (10^-15 meters). This blows my mind that there are structures that are so much smaller and larger than we are. \n\n[This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U) is a good example, showing earth-scale and up. ",
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"body": "The natural occurrence of symmetry. Also that, given a lack of predators and an abundance of resources, life tends to evolve beauty and eccentricity (see the [Birds of Paradise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_Paradise) of Papua New Guinea). ",
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"body": "Everytime I look at the sky in the night, I remind myself that I am looking at the past, as the lights from those stars left them many many light years ago.",
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"body": "[An excerpt from Cosmic Voyage, narrated by Morgan Freeman. You haven't had your mind until you watch this.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxXf7AJZ73A)",
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"body": "The shape of the universe. As a child you imagine the universe being like a bubble and if you could just get out to the edge you could see what the universe is made of, or peer beyond the edge. Then I read A Short History of Nearly Everything where Bill Bryson discusses that if you went to the edge of the universe you could actually loop back and wind up where you started, like going off the edge in a 1980s video game and coming back to your start point. \r\n\r\nI tried to imagine that in 3d and was completely blown away. ",
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"body": "That my time in this wondrous universe is infinitesimal and finite, yet the urgency I felt to learn and discover and grow is diminished, for the one person who I shared this gift with has already passed from the universe as I perceive it.",
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"body": "I usually give myself the old mind-cream when I'm outside, by myself, at night. I'll look up and realize that I am on a fucking *planet in space*.\n\nIt reminds me of the movie Aliens when they show the actual surface outside. Just a huge black vastness, nothing separating you from the void.\n\nUsually, my brain will shit its medulla into its pants around then.",
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Why is 'toned' a four letter word... | Seen a few examples of this and wondering why. Can someone shed light on this for me?
Edit: I can't believe that smarmy mockery of the euphemism is the top comment. For the others, thanks...makes more sense now. | 3 | [
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"body": "Because in the way it's usually used, it doesn't describe anything that actually exists. There is a term, \"muscle tone,\" which Wikipedia describes as the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles.\r\n\r\nThere's fat, and there's muscle--you can reduce or increase the amount of either one, but you can't do something called \"toning\" to muscle.",
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"body": "It's a four letter word because it's the go-to marketing word for people on late night television trying to sell the latest and greatest device that will wind up unused in your basement 5 minutes after the mailman drops it off. \n\nIt also implies that you're working out for looks only whereas the fitness reddit has a slant more toward working out to be strong. I think having strength as a goal is actually a better mind-set because, when you start off, you'll make huge strength gains which is really encouraging. Your looks, on the other hand, might take a long time to come around and, let's face it, you may never get a 6-pack if your genetics aren't right. If you focus on strength you'll be able to see quantifiable progress and you can keep making progress for a long time.",
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Grinder recommendations? | I recently went out and bought my first grinder. About a week ago four of the pegs that do all the grinding just fell out. I've tried to fix it, but that didn't work.
Are there brands of grinders out there that anyone could recommend? I'm sure there are plenty out there that are reliable, I just figured that this would be the best place to go to. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated. | 5 | [
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"body": "I got a great Chromium Crusher on amazon for like twenty bucks shipped. grinds great, has the magnets so the top doesnt fall off, and if you stick a nickel above the screen you'll get plenty of keif. Highly recommended.",
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Reddit, I am just about to start my first real job, and was wondering what advice you might have. | I figure that there are things you are both happy you did and wish you did when you first started working, and I wanted to know what those were.
What do you think is important to do when starting a job? | 9 | [
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"body": "The most important thing hands down is not being afraid to ask questions. If you have any bit of doubt in your mind about ANYTHING, it's better to ask than to make a mistake. \n\nI wouldn't bring your family troubles, monetary troubles, or anything else into the workplace. Put on your happy alter-ego and be all smiles, but not overly so.\n\nAlways make yourself look extremely busy even if you aren't.\n\nMaintain good personal hygiene at all times.\n\nBe positive.",
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"body": "Show up on time and don't leave till told to leave. Also don't act entitled. Most people I encounter in their early 20's seem to think they are all super special and deserve a different set of rules.",
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"body": "A few tips...\r\n\r\nAnytime you are talking about a fellow coworker, pretend they are in the same room and can hear you even if they can't. You never know who is listening and who is friends with who.\r\n\r\nDo not miss a day of work for the first 90 days unless you made an arrangement before you started the job.\r\n\r\nStay positive, even if it sucks. You can always find another job after a few months if it is really god awful.\r\n\r\nRespect the chain of command in your office. Never go above your supervisor's head.\r\n\r\nJust be honest, treat everyone with respect and work hard. You will do fine. Good luck.",
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"body": "-Asume no one is your friend, 'cause its true, their interest first. Not to say should should be unfriendly, just cautious. Remember, everyone's primary interest is themselves. \n\n-Your job is to ( within reason) do as your immediate superior says, no matter how idiotic. They are your key to stability and advancement. No quixotic missions.\n\n-If it's a large organization, and you are wandering around or goofing off, always carry a paper or a folder ( one of my first bosses told me this one:)",
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"body": "What sort of job is it? Different work environments will give you different interactions with colleagues and different work practices.\n\nObserve how your colleagues interact with each other and especially with the boss / supervisor. Make sure you know where the line is between joking and disrespect. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Pay attention to what people say, MAKE NOTES if you need to. Don't be too gullible and let the office assholes walk all over you and ask you to do their work for them. A few times is fine to earn a few favours to keep for later, but anymore and you become the office doormat. \n\nKNOW YOUR JOB DESCRIPTION, but don't stick to it like white on rice. You need to be relatively flexible because it shows you are willing to go above and beyond your duty to improve your work etc. I'm a contract engineer and in my first project my team showed a very high aptitude for Excel and Visual Basic. Our original contract involved very basic work and was pretty boring and took very little time to do. So we learnt to do some programming so we could spend less time with the boring tasks and spend more time developing the system to help the Engineering team we were supporting. As a result, we became the goto guys for Excel and VB based solutions, which was nice because we were getting kudos left right and centre, but we were still getting paid diddly-squat... Anyways long story short, we went well beyond what we were paid to do and really impressed the company. Now one of my team mates is running the IT projects at that site and I'm running the projects on another site. \n\n**tl:dr** Don't become jaded and lazy until you've given it your all for at least a year. Do things to improve yourself, not to impress the boss. Stay out of the office politics. As the newbie, you will be an easy target.",
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"body": "Don't be one of those lazy ass people who makes everyone else do their work. Also don't be the guy who lets people walk all over him because he's \"The new guy\". Don't be afraid to stand up for yourself.",
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"body": "It sounds stupidly simple, but go to work. No matter what job you have, it starts by you showing up. As a manager, nothing annoys me so much as someone regularly calling out, or leaving early, etc.",
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"body": "Make sure you work AT LEAST 8 hours every day. Don't gossip. Don't complain. Keep chocolate at your desk. Be nice to the secretaries they can help you a lot. Don't ask too many questions: people are busy, they don't really have a lot of time to devote to you. ",
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"body": "Go back to school! Work SUCKS! \n\n\nYou'll start off working hard, getting into it, doing good, feeling great about your accomplishments, making a difference. Then you'll keep working and about 2 years in you'll realize that all that hard work has barely amounted to shit while your direct manager moves into a house that you can look up on Zillow for having recently sold for 1.25 million dollars. That's when you'll watch \"[The Money Masters](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936&ei=Y-lMS7LnO4fCrQK29IG-BQ&q=the+moneymasters#)\" and realize that nothing really matters and become very depressed. At some point you'll find out about [Dick Proenneke](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss) and start thinking about how people always say money doesn't grow on trees and yet they're spending 30 years of their life in debt/wage slavery just to pay for something made largely out of wood. You'll realize that mortgage has the root MORT in it for a reason.... MORTGAGE - MORT - MORTUARY => until you die. Then you'll drop out of society and actually go to alaska but realize things aren't as cut and dry as you wish they were and after a year of realizing that all the things you want to do ARE possible but they do take money at least up until the point that you can extricate yourself from society properly. You'll realize that you were making better money in the lower 48 and head back. Your old company might hire you back. Then you'll read reddit and see posts where people are asking for advice about their first job and be like, holy crap, I wish I could impart some of my experiences on this eager young person without sounding like crumudgeon. But then you can't.",
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"body": "Keep candy at your desk in jars (M&Ms, fun size chocolate, etc), encourage coworkers to have some, and occasionally bring other food like cookies or brownies once every week or so.\n\nWhy? Your presence will literally establish a Pavlovian response in your coworkers. ",
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Who else is tired of being outraged? | You ever just feel tired of all the horrible things that go on in the world? Does it feel like it takes just too much effort to actually feel any outrage about it?
On a side note, I'm tired of outrage, but I'm ready to do something. If you could start a lobby or charity or something, that addresses just one issue, what would it be? | 31 | [
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"body": "Yeah, I thought about this earlier today, I thought about how I just don't care anymore. If I watch the news and see that a 5-year old girl has been raped, stabbed, lit on fire and thrown from a tall building and I wouldn't care. I'm just sick of hearing about shit like this, and it sucks that I don't care anymore. I hope that I will care again soon.",
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"body": "My problem is that my outrage comes from things which are ingrained institutions of society. Education, legal bullshit, the abuse of powers which shouldn't even exist, religious nonsense, and miscellaneous other government bullshit.\n\nAnd then my outrage extends out to the people who side with me on so many of these issues, but cannot come together because of petty ideological differences. Combating these issues should be the priority of all free-thinking people, yet so many people have, in the place of being beholden to government and religion, sunk their claws fast into other ideologies that are sometimes just as blinding.\n\nI seethe with anger and frustration at the thought of talking to these people. The only people worse are those who have the even higher level of groupthink that our largest social institutions push. ",
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Redditors: How many of you have played OGame? If so do you have any good stories about how it affected your life? | Reddit, I am a former player of OGame. I relapsed twice but have now broken free of the life consuming devotion to fleet saving, probing, and phalanxing. If you have do you have any particularly good stories about how it consumed your life/things you did to ensure you succeeded in game?
I myself can’t tell you how many strange things I did to ensure my success in the game. Here are some highlights though. (In no particular order)
I was on my way home from a vacation with my then fiancé when we stopped to get something to eat, we came out of the food joint and her car failed to start. We were delayed two hours while I got a new battery and installed it. Problem was though, we were still about an hour from home and my fleet was due back any time now, my carefully planned fleet save was shattered. So I did what any good ogame player would do in this situation. I called everyone I knew who could log on to my account for me so I could guide them through the fleet save process however anyone with any knowledge of how computers worked was out enjoying the nice summer day so it came down to the worst possible thing imaginable….. I had to walk my mom through a fleet save. What would take me about 3 minutes took me 15 over the phone with a woman who can barely figure out how to turn the machine on, let alone follow simple commands about where to click the mouse and what not.
I once left the table while out to dinner with my girlfriend and her parents to organize a raid on a top 20 player with my brother. (the look I got from her when I came back was that look of “If you even thought about getting in my pants tonight you have another thing coming” took her two days to let it go enough to talk to me.) Good news though… I made like 5 HOFs in that timeframe. Thus I conclude sex is detrimental to Ogaming…. Or is it the other way around? She married me so I guess it wasn’t that bad eh?
While at home from college one summer I remember waking up at 03:30 AM to a blaring alarm, my brother (who also played) walking into my room while we refreshed our laptops to do a probe slow, phalanx, and watch a massive hit go through. I woke up 2 hours later to make sure my recyclers got all the debris. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if it wasn’t a reoccurring trend…….
At one point our mother got so pissed off at us because our alarms were going off in the early AM that she threatened to cancel the internet service to our house. She never did, but we would have just paid out of our own pocket to reestablish. Instead we just took turns on the large and late night hits staying up to maintain a watch on them.
Two months before my best friend was to get married I introduced him to Ogame. He wound up loving it. I had been playing for about 6 months at that point. When I brought it up, in passing, that I had introduced him to Ogame, my Girlfriend at the time looked at me, and with the most heartfelt sincere tone of disapproval said “Oh my god AgentSnark I can’t believe you did that to her (His wife) YOU KNOW THEY ARE GETTING MARRIED! Why would you do that to them?!” I laughed at that, but deep down I knew…. I knew I had done a bad, very bad thing to her. (Long story short he is still with her, he doesn’t play anymore though)
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"body": "I am honestly quite surprised at the lack of OGame players on reddit. Maybe the thread didnt get high enough to capture attention. ",
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Is there a website that debunks Fox News' propaganda?
| My Republican friend is convinced he's getting quality news from Fox, Hannity, Limbaugh et al and that pretty much any other source is leftist liberal biased propaganda.
**tl;dr: Is there a website that debunks Fox News' propaganda?**
I tried a bit on my own, but I don't remember any concrete examples.
The one that comes to mind is when they were putting (R) next to a politician's name who had done something good and (D) next to ones who had made a mistake.
edit: feel free to post sites condemning the leftist media as well, the end goal is the truth. | 5 | [
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"body": "http://www.fair.org/\r\n\r\nhttp://mediamatters.org\r\n\r\nhttp://www.politifact.com/\r\n\r\nhttp://www.factcheck.org/\r\n\r\nhttp://people-press.org/\r\n\r\n",
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Help, I overdrafted heavily and am wondering what I can do. | I paid for my housing and my mom and I share an account. I was pretty sure she had placed money into the account, and I wrote a check. Then I went for a week and bought little stuff (like food as usual) that I had no idea was fucking me badly. Now I owe like $400 in overdraft fees because they take a $30 fee with each overdraft. I know this happens to lots of people, and am wondering if there is anything to be done other than sucking it up? My credit union is Twinstar btw. | 3 | [
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"body": "Call and explain what happened and if they can reverse some of the overdraft fees. I had a bad banking few months and my bank credited me some back each time.",
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"body": "My credit union took pity on me and reversed $180 in overdraft fees... but they told me I had to be more careful with my purchases from now on and this was the last time I'd get a refund.\n\n\"You have to remember there is no delay in when you use your card to when it tries to withdraw money from your account\" - which is what got me as it used to take a couple of days.\n\nSo pretty much get them to take pity on you...",
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Argument with my girlfriend over reality TV shows | It's not really an argument so much as this morning she said something like, "I bet as many guys watch those dumb reality shows as girls."
This runs counter to everything I think about reality shows, not because I'm some kind of sexist asshole, but just because it seems to me like out of all the people I know the ones who follow reality TV are female.
So like any good, self-respecting redditor I went online to try to find some information on the demographics of the programs we were talking about (specifically the dating type TV -- Frank the Entertainer, Rock of Love, I Love New York, Flavor of Love, etc.) but my searches came up with nothing useful.
Are there any redditors who know something about this, have an opinion, or know where information can be found about this? I'm not as interested in shows like the Real World, Road Rules, Survivor, etc. and I know there's reality TV directed solely at guys (Average Joes? the one where normal guys get the shit kicked out of them by professional athletes at sports), but I feel like reality TV is mainly oriented to attract female viewers.
One possible way of confirming this is looking at the ads which appear during shows I would suppose. I can't force myself anymore of that shit though, saw some the other night with some friends (female) and I thought my head was going to implode.
What do you guys think? Evenly distributed male-female ratio, or heavily skewed to the female side?
Edit: I also thought I should add that neither one of us really watch much TV. When she does it's usually shows like Dexter or Weeds. Neither of us are fans of reality television. | 6 | [
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"body": "My wife can't live without reality TV\n\nWhen I have the choice, it's football or National Geographic/Science channel.\n\nAlso, there's no girls on the internet, so your survey may not work out.",
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"body": "Depends on the show. ANTM: all women and gays, Ultimate Fighter: all guys. The ones you mentioned seem to be pretty girl heavy. I would say ones like Survivor, the Apprentice, American Idol are pretty even. \r\n\r\nJust my opinion. I'm a girl though. And I hate reality shows except the Jersey Shore (which my bf and his friends love and watch every week). ",
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Dear Reddit, help me find a title for my book. | So, I am currently writing a book on hiking and climbing photography (see my [IAmA](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ab1wv/iama_climbing_and_mountaineering_photographer_ama/)), to be published in late 2010 or early 2011 by [Rocky Nook](http://www.rockynook.com). The writing itself is going ok, but the publisher wants to start designing the cover, which means that they need a title. And I haven't been able to come up with anything better than *Hiking and Climbing Photography* (I liked *Vertically Challenged Photography* and *Trail Food, Water and Camera*, but I don't think those will fly). So I'm open to any idea you may have. I can't offer free copies, but your name will definitely make it to the acknowledgement section.
Some more details: it's a book for "intermediate" users (i.e. people who already know how to operate their camera) explaining the specific challenges of photography in the big outdoors. Its main focus will be on unsupported treks and mountaineering, but it will also have sections on smaller hikes and on technical rock and ice climbing. It will discuss composition and subject matter as well as technique and gear. And all of it will be illustrated by my [photographs](http://www.alexandrebuisse.org).
*Edit*: Thanks for all the great suggestions! I will now discuss some with the publisher and will let you know once a final title has been found, along with proper credit.
*Edit2*: It looks like the title is going to be **Remote Exposure: The Art of Climbing and Hiking Photography**. Thanks to buycurious and defrost who helped work it out (and to everyone else, of course). Just for fun, here is a [quick mockup](http://www.alexandrebuisse.org/images/cover-mockup-small.jpg) I did of the cover. | 6 | [
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"body": "Skewed Perspective\n\nf stops and mountaintops\n\nedit: how to make a splint from your tripod\n\n[nice photos. good luck]",
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Reddit, what's your favorite sandwich? | Someone mentioned sandwiches in a different thread and now I'm curious... What's YOUR favorite sandwich (ordered or homemade). Do you tailor it any special way/have special toppings/etc?
My traditional sandwich usually consists of 3 slices of turkey (whatever is cheap from the deli), 2 slices provolone cheese, enough spring mix to fit ontop of that and then a good speading of mayo/mustard on the top piece of bread. I usually get wheat or 12 grain bread.
Kinda boring I know. So please share! It might inspire me/others to try something different.
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"body": "BLT. This is the only sandwich which I get a craving for once a month or so, and it's so worth the work, even for one.\n\nI enjoy egg salad maybe once or twice a year. If I get something from the deli, it's usually turkey and muenster, lots of spicy mustard and veggies.",
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Now that California AB 390 has passed the initial vote, what happens next? | Hi Reddit,
I have a question! Now that the California AB 390 bill to legalize marijuana and treat it exactly like Alochol under the law has passed, what happens next? The article I read says that "due to legislative constraints that is all that will happen re: this bill for this year". What else is left to do before this becomes an actual, implemented law? | 45 | [
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"body": "From Assembly Public Safety to Assembly Public Health to full Assembly to Senate committee to Senate committee II to full Senate to joint committee to work out Assembly/Senate differences to floors of both Assembly and Senate for confirmation to Governor’s desk for signature and THEN it will be law.",
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"body": "Nothing. The bill is currently [dead](http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14173190?nclick_check=1). ",
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Hey reddit - in the middle of doing something you've always done - like, for example, tying a bow - do you ever find yourself forgetting how to do it momentarily? | This happened to me the other day - scared me quite a bit. Am I beginning the slippery slope toward dementia, or is this just a result of overthinking things (which I admit I tend to do) interfering with muscle memory? | 11 | [
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"body": "This happens to me a lot.\n\nEspecially with playing guitar parts that I have known a long time.\nIf I try to think about how to play it I can't. \nBut if I distract myself and let my fingers just do it i can play it. \n\nWeird.",
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"body": "One day last week, I picked up a pen to sign something and then froze staring at the pen in my right hand. I just knew I wouldn't be able to sign whatever it was. For a brief moment there, I completely forgot I was left handed.",
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"body": "Centepede effect. If you think about how you do something, you confuse your muscle memory and stumble. Don't worry about it. ",
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"body": "pin number. One time I was buying a pair of jeans at macy's and used my debit card. I did the first number, and then blankness. I had been using the same code for at least a year and I couldn't for the life of me remember it. I had my gf distract me so I would do it correctly and I punched away, getting it right the second try. I had her watch my hand, and I relearned it. completely jarring",
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"body": "This happens to me when I think about something while doing it. If I do a mindless task that's been so drilled into my brain that I don't need to think while I do it, and I think about it while doing it, I've lost my ability to do it. Is there a scientific term for this?",
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Hey, reddit, what are your stupid human tricks? | There has got to be some awesome ones out there that I've never seen before. Bonus points for videos/pictures.
Myself? I can suck milk up my nose and squirt it out of my eye.
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"body": "Not as much a human trick as an amazing discovery, but I found out that I can stick earbuds playing music up my nose and open my mouth to amplify the sound.\n",
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"body": "I can contract my anus muscles in a way such that it creates suction. It sucks a lot of air in which I then can fart out again. This is a skill me and my friends really worked on to attain as kids. I can still do it. I remember sneaking off to my sister's room and repeating this maybe a hundred times so that the foulest stench would greet her once she came home.\n\nIf you are going to do this, please take a shit before you try. I do not speak of experience, but this may very well send a turd flying out your ass. We're speaking about a massive amount of air here, probably comparable to the very biggest farts you have ever done.\n\nHere is how to do it:\n\n* Either lie down with your legs over your head or stand with a slight knee bend relaxing your arms on your kneecaps. This is to relax your asshole and make sure that there is plenty of room for air intake.\n\n* Now it is time to drag air in. This is the hard part. Do the same thing you do when you breath in, but cut of the air intake if you understand what I mean by that. You do the same thing as when you drag a burp inn, but you kind of stop the air intake. This will result in what feels like your stomach contracting and your ass contracting. Air will now start to gush in your asshole.\n\n* When you are satisfied, perform a standard fart. It is not wise to drag too much air in.\n\nYou will have to be reasonably fit to do this and have good control over your muscles. The friends of mine that simply could not do it were all unfit people and usually fat.",
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"body": "Not me, but a friend in university could suck a condom up his nose, pull one end out from the back of his throat, and see-saw it back and forth to the disgust of onlookers.",
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"body": "I can form a bubble using saliva with my tongue, and then blow it off the tip of my tongue so it floats for a bit.",
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"body": "I thought I had a pretty good one before I saw the condom through nose and out mouth one. \n\nBut I can breath in and out simultaneously, essentially I could inflate the worlds largest balloon with a single breath. Unfortunately I`m afraid of balloons so this skills never really has any practical purposes. ",
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"body": "I can wiggle my ears.\n\nI can raise either eyebrow.\n\nI can roll my stomach like a bellydancer (as a dude, this is useless).\n\nI can also push my stomach out to imitate pregnancy (as a dude, this is also useless).\n\nI can relax my throat to allow air to fill my stomach (similar to the currently top rated comment, but with my throat, not my sphincter). Note: this is different than swallowing air, which is what most people do to fake-burp.\n\nIf I close my mouth, pinch my nostrils, and try to force air out, it will come out of my tear ducts, often making small bubbles from tears when it does.",
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"body": "I can:\r\n\r\n* Cross one eye, and move one eye independent of the other (as long as they don't diverge too much)\r\n* Puff up my tongue in a weird way that makes it look like some sort of tongue-blob is emerging from my mouth\r\n* Vibrate my eyes",
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"body": "I can blow spit bubbles off my tongue, create a 3 leaf clover with my tongue, stick about 4 dollars in quarters up my nose, and stick my fist in my mouth. Years of experimentation and practice. ",
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"body": "At a bar I can put my palms on the bar top, my elbows in my gut and lift myself so my body is parallel to the floor. In my 20's I could *almost* convert that into a handstand. Pro-tip: Don't try this on a table, they usually tip up and hilarity ensues.\n\nEdit: #2: I can hit the cap of a sealed drink in a glass bottle (as in never been opened) with my elbow and palm rapidly about half a dozen times and cause the bottom of the bottle to crack/shatter.",
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Traveling to Greece in March. Any suggestions/advice welcomed. | My mom and I are planning a three week trip to Greece this March. I've been researching quite a bit but thought it wouldn't hurt to get some advice from redditors. We plan to spend a week in Athens and the other two traveling around and hitting as many ruins as we can. We both love to hike and would like to be outdoors as much as possible. Thanks for any suggestions/advice! | 5 | [
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"body": "Delphi. I cannot underline that enough. Delphi Delphi **Delphi**. \n\nAlso, Nafplio is neat, it has a bangin' fortress up on a cliff (you can take the bus up, orrr you can be awesome and scale the 999 steps to the top, which is so worth it because of the neat stuff on the way up), and is also right near Agamemnon's palace at Mycenae, which is very worth seeing. Nafplio also has a neat marble beach.",
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What tune got you in to DnB? | I'm pretty certain mine was [Song in the Key of Knife](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTffuO3WRq8) by London Elektricity back when Chriss Goss was part of the duo. Blew my mind. I remember feeling unsettled by how much I liked the song. I could hardly believe this music matched whatever musical taste I had (it hadn't really developed yet) so unbelievably well.
What was yours? | 8 | [
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"body": "Wasn't a track. It was MSX 101.1 FM on GTA3.\n\nOmni Trio - First Contact:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHz7GggG1fo",
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"body": "Wasn't really a track that got me into it, it was going to a party when I was 16, back in the mid 90s. Mind was blown. But the first album I remember buying and obsessing over was [Origin Unknown - Sound in Motion](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gazUi2y8Ss). ",
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"body": "Was back in Year 8 (1999, age ~12): [EZ Rollers - Walk This Land](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTG3LGyR0DQ&feature=related) after watching Lock Stock. \n\nI had that track for ages before I even knew there was a whole genre surrounding it. Then I bumped into [Ganja kru - Super Sharp Shooter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2KZoWLot0g) and got well into early Jungle. Never looked back..\n",
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"body": "I think back in '96 when was 14, I went to my cousins place, and he played me a casette of Shy FX - Chopper (remix) with DJ Hype scratching over the top. I was truly blown away. \"OMG WHAT IS THIS MUSIC?\". It was heaven to my virgin ears.\n\nAfter that I listened to a fair amount of Aphrodite, but I'd say what really got me into it was Colours by Adam F - that's when I discovered a deeper, more intelligent side to the genre.",
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I'm moving to Denver! Colorado Redditors, do you have any advice? | I'm going to be moving from Chicago to the Denver area (20 minutes away) this spring. It's a little crazy because I've never been to Colorado, so please tell me: What should I be aware of? The living situation is all figured out, so I don't need pointers as far as housing/renting goes. Any tips on assimilating to life a mile above sea level? Is it difficult adjusting to the altitude? How do you like living there? Is there anything you don't like about Colorado? How's the job market? (I am 24 with a BA in English and nearly 2 years of administrative office experience, for reference.) I'd appreciate hearing anything you can tell me about your city. | 6 | [
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"body": "I've been in Colorado (Fort Collins, about an hour north of Denver) my entire life. The beer here is great. The food is good, sports entertainment is great, and the Denver Art Museum is pretty kick ass. Traffic can be bad (I used to commute between Boulder and Fort Collins for a couple of years), but it can be bad anywhere in the country, honestly. The economy sucks, sure, but everyone in the country is taking a bite of that. The weather can be unpredictable, so always have a couple of layers on hand. The air is very dry, and lotion / chapstick is your friend. Many residents have SUVs and think this makes up for a lack of actual driving skill. If the roads are icy, try to stay as far away from other vehicles as possible; you can, within reason, control your own car on a slick surface... however you have no control over the stupidity of other drivers. Keep emergency supplies (food, water, blankets / sleeping bag, first aid, squares of carpet or cat litter to deal with ice) in your car just in case you get stranded or stuck somewhere. \n\n\nEdit: You may have an issue going from the 600ft of Chicago to 5200 ft in Denver, but you'll get used to it eventually.",
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"body": "Enjoy the beer. Colorado may have the best microbrew situation ever. If your into that, drive about an hour up north and go to Ft. Collins, they have a ton of microbrews too. The Denver Museum is pretty sweet. Go to Casa Bonita, the food is rough (other than the sopapia's) but the atmosphere is cool. Watch South Park, they make so many refrences to Colorado.",
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"body": "*Watch out for the drivers, for some reason no one in this fucking state knows how to drive.\n\n*Never come over the the \"Western Slope\" its full of dumb ass red neck assholes.\n\n*If you're not a broncos fan don't tell anyone, telling them that is like saying you want to fuck there mom.\n\n*There is a reason his is considered the drunkest state in the U.S., watch out for drunk red necks at night, yes EVERY night. \n\n*The job market is FUCKING Terrible! \n\nThat's all i can think of right now ill come back if i can think of more.",
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"body": "My son used to live not far from there, and we visited quite a bit. Colorado is a great place - lots of activities, especially the outdoorsy kind. I never had any problems with the altitude, but be sure to drink lots of water, because it evaporates away faster. Lots of skiing (duh) just west of Denver. Colorado Springs has tons of touristy things (Pikes Peak, etc) and just north of Denver is Estes Park, also worth the trip.\r\n\r\nHave fun!",
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"body": "Use sunblock-the sun is intense here.\r\nStay off the highways whenever any moisture is falling. Find a backroad to work.\r\nIf you visit the mountains for any outdoor activity, learn about avalanches, lightning and basic survival before you go. Take twice as much water as you exepct to use.\r\nTry to develop a taste for Mexican food. There's alot of it (and good).\r\nI second the comments about the Broncos and the microbrews.\r\nWelcome!",
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"body": "Colorado rocks, I live in Boulder but have lived in Arvada, Louisville, and Westminster. I've been all over. I'm NOT a city person, my biggest grip with living here is that I hate urban (even suburban) situations, BUTTTTT I have to say... if you MUST live in a city, you have made a good choice.\n\nWhat are you into? This is mecca for weed and snowboarding, golden is mecca for paragliding, boulder is mecca for full scale gliding... there are lots of good things here.",
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"body": "I visit my dad in Denver 2 or 3 times a year and have never had any issues with the altitude, really (I live in NYC), except that my skin gets drier. So, moisturize.\n\nThere's great beer, a pretty good restaurant scene, and a solid cultural life (plenty of museums, Swallow Hill Music, the Bluebird Theater, etc). Take advantage of the mountains! Learn to ski if you're not already a skiier and go enjoy a hike in the warm months. \n\nEdit: Whatever you do, if you go to BeauJo's for pizza, don't let them convince you that dipping the crust in honey is a \"thing.\" It's a bad idea.",
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Favorite alcoholic drinks other than beer? | I've been a beer drinker for quite some time now. Recently my girlfriend and I were out and she ordered me a Hendricks gin and tonic. I loved it. What alcoholic drinks, other than beer, do you love? | 49 | [
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"body": "Gin & Tonic's are definitely one of my favorites. If you liked the Hendricks G&T try it with a slice of cucumber instead of lime, it sounds weird but it's delicious (only works with Hendricks because it is already flavored with cucumber).\n\nAlso, long island ice tea - because we're not drinking to get sober!",
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"body": "Mmmm.... whiskey. Matter of fact, it's 3:33pm, I don't have shit to do so fuck it, time to indulge! ",
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"body": "Jameson. Not sure why the stuff is so cheap, makes me wonder if they have some kinda chemical manufacturing plant instead of actually making it from barley",
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"body": "* Single Malt Scotch.\n\n\n* French red wine. Specifically Bordeaux and Rhone region wines. I love Chateauneuf de Pape wines.\n\n\n* Hendrix gin in a dry martini.\n\n\n* Bollinger Grande Annee 1996 vintage champagne. \n\n\n\n\nI believe that rounds out my normal selections.",
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"body": "Pina Colada. I am a male. I don't care if its a girly drink. I'd take one over a beer any day. I'd drink one while watching football. I don't care. They taste so damn good. The strange part is I hate coconut.",
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"body": "Recently I went on this kick of drinking nothing but watermelon-flavored Italian sodas with a generous amount of vodka thrown in. Out of a glass shaped like a boot. With a krazy straw. Because I'm classy like that.",
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"body": "Vodka + Red Bull = nom fucking nom.\n\n1800 tequila is also ace (when drinking beer, a specific ratio of 1 shot per 3 beers is ideal).",
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"body": "A neat Talisker or Laphroaig.\n\nI tried Southern Comfort and Coke a couple of days ago, a ladies drink but it's good. \n\nEDIT: If you're Scottish try Whiskey and Irn Bru, I call it 'The Highlander' but it goes by many names. ",
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"body": "* Old Fashioned\n* Islay malt\n* White Russian (tending more towards the Sunburnt Armenian)\n* White Lady\n* Rioja\n* NZ Cabernet Sauvignon\n\nI've never really like the taste of tonic water, so G'n'T has always been cut off to me, which is a shame as it's such a flexible drink, suitable for so many occasions.",
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"body": "I have to go with the old stand-by Jack and Coke, really any kind of whiskey with Coke. If no coke like soda is available I can always just drink it straight on the rocks.",
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"body": "* Sauza Gold margarita, rocks, salt.\n\n* Gin martini, lime twist.\n\n* Red wine: Red zin, pinot noir, malbec, cab.\n\n* Southern Comfort + Coke.\n\n* Last drink of the night: Baileys on the rocks.\n\n* Whiskey + Coke. It's my go-to wedding reception drink.\n\n* My wife's favorite drink is the bartender's challenge. She walks up to the bar and says \"make me something that tastes like ______.\" This only works if you're a girl.\n\n* [Jagerbombs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JMOh-cul6M#t=2m11s). ",
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"body": "I used to think I hated martinis, but then I bought some decent gin and started making them myself; and I love 'em. \r\n\r\nI also used to hate whiskey, 'til a friend of mine introduced me to Johnny Walker Blue Label. That's ridiculously far above what I can afford, but I've been exploring different varieties of Scotch since then, and liking them. Just about to go pick up a bottle of Lagavulin I ordered.",
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"body": "Hennessy\n\nMaker's Mark \n\nJim and Coke\n\nSapphire and Tonic\n\nWhite Russian\n\n**E&J and Ginger Ale**\n",
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"body": "Cocktails:\n\n1. Manhattan. It starts with \"man\" for a reason.\n2. Rum and coke\n3. Tequila sunrise\n4. White russian\n5. Screwdriver\n6. Bloody mary (find a place that is known for these; if made properly they are delicious, but if made poorly they are awful)\n\nShots:\n\n1. Buttery nipples (Baileys layered over butterscotch schnapps. If it isn't layered it won't taste right.)\n2. Mad russian (A white Russian, except replace the cream with Baileys. There's a reason this is a shot.)\n3. Doctor Pepper\n4. Sake\n\nWines:\n\n1. Reisling\n2. Shiraz\n\nMiscellaneous:\n\n1. Port\n2. Car bombs",
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"body": "It depends on the time of year. If its hot, there's nothing better than a good gin & tonic. The problem with G&Ts is that you can get mighty hungover without realizing its going to happen. \nMost other times of year, I stick to whiskey neat, or whiskey gingers. Scotch is a wonderful thing for an occasional beverage - I keep a nice bottle on hand for that craving. \nMy absolute favorite mixed drink is a slight variation on the Old Fashioned - rye, peychauds bitters, splash of water, sugar, muddle with cherries and an orange. Add some ice and shake. Rinse a rocks glass with absinthe, and strain the mix into it. ",
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"body": "Sparks. Hey, if you're going to show how un-classy you are by drinking Red Bull and vodka, you might as well just throw class under a bus and get the job done right.",
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Im falling in love with a man who is separated, his wife left him and went back to Europe. Im really torn, and he dosen't like to talk about it. | he blurted out that he was still married on the second night we hung out together. she apparently needed to go home after 3 years in america with him and left. i dont know how to re-approach this topic, but i also want to protect myself and not go head over heels if his heart and mind are still with her. i have dated previously married men before and gotten burned because they have emotional scars and are sort of traumatized. it has been only 5 months since she left, he still has her cosmetics in his bathroom, but talks openly about her and is open about the reality. he has been working through the confusion and fallout, with meditation, journaling and the like. i REALLY could fall in love with this person and spend the rest of my life with him and have children, grow old. i just need help. i tend to overextend myself and spend tons of time with people and neglect myself, so this time i am also taking time out for myself and making some boundaries about taking care of myself in the midst of being in love. i want to be smart about it this time.
so i guess my question to RA is this: what do i need to know from him before i can proceed to let myself (responsibly) fall for this amazing man? i am 31, female and he is 29. We have kissed and it is obvious we have a major connection intellectually, emotionally and physically. we are headed for greatness, if i can figure out a way to communicate my concern about him being married. that is the elephant in the room for me, i cant let myself go. | 4 | [
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"body": "I've been separated almost two years and haven't finalized my divorce even though I have no intention of going back to my ex. It is an awkward topic to bring up sometimes (which can lead to blurting it out, etc). I'd just say something like \"Do you mind if we discuss your marriage? I feel like it's kind of an elephant in the room\".\n\n> i tend to overextend myself\n\nYou are doing that now. Stop thinking about children and the rest of your life with this man, IMMEDIATELY! You can't have been together more than a couple months, and you aren't comfortable talking to him about difficult issues, so making this kind of future plans is WAY out of line. Even if his marriage isn't an issue, you are setting yourself up to be the rebound girl, which would make a LTR very difficult. Slow down and get comfortable with this man before you start thinking love. In my experience rebound relationships usually move too quickly, and then fall apart just as fast.",
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"body": "She left him, so he's available. You just need to figure out if you're the rebound girl, or you're someone he could spend a long time with.",
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Assuming we had really cheap electricity/heat sources (e.g. lots of cheap nuke plants), what is the best liquid fuel that can be produced from that? | I've been thinking lately that it seems very likely that we can eventually do a buildup of new nuclear technology (e.g. Advanced CANDU, EPR, IFR, LFTR, and fusion in the long run) to generate lots of electricity. However, liquid fuels for transportation have a huge advantage in terms of energy density and convenience. Of course, we may eventually have awesome battery/capacitor technology, we might be able to put induction chargers in the roads, and we can always fall back on electric trains, but I am just assuming that all of those are not options for this thought experiment.
What liquid fuels can be produced easily with cheap electricity? And of them, which one is the best option for fueling cars and trucks. I'd prefer to stick with renewable sources, but that is not absolutely necessary for this thought experiment (e.g. coal liquidification). | 18 | [
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"body": "I don't buy the hydrogen economy. It has far too low energy density and is much too difficult to store to be a viable alternative to dense hydrocarbons. Hydrogen molecules diffuse through just about anything and can make stainless steels brittle. The lack of combustion emissions is a huge bonus though.\n\nI think a better fuel would be a light hydrocarbon under high compression like LNG or LP fuel. It is easy to convert any waste organic matter (sewage, forestry products, agricultural residue, the bodies of my enemies) into these fuels with enough heat, and the low carbon content would limit tailpipe emissions.\n\nThis would just be a stopgap until full electric cars are available and practical. High temp superconductors can't show up soon enough.\n\nI would also like to see a shift in performance demands in transportation. I have never taken my Jetta over 100mph and have little or no desire to do so, but my tires are rated to 122mph. With a shift in consumer demands I could have gotten a 1.4L turbodiesel instead of the 1.9 and maybe have gotten 60 miles/gallon instead of 45.",
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"body": "The simplest and most efficient way would be to start with heat before wasting it to generate electricity. For example, use high temperature steam from reactor to extract tar sands and produce oil -- the process similar to what is done now, but with much lower carbon footprint. It might be even possible (but probably not efficient) to produce hydrogen from high temperature steam. This avoids extra step of generating electricity. ",
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Watched Up In The Air? I travel almost as much as Clooney does in the movie. AMAA | I don't go around firing people though.
Edit: I've got a flight to catch. Post your questions and I'll try to get to them tonight or tomorrow morning. | 96 | [
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"body": "Do you accumulate frequent flier miles? If so, how many do you have, and have you ever redeemed them for any notable rewards?",
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"body": "* Do you always get seated in business class or higher? Ever had to sit next to annoying children or really obese people?\n\n* What's your favorite plane food?\n\n* How often do you drink alcohol on a plane?\n\n* Ever seen or met a really famous person in an airport/plane?\n\n* Has a flight attendant ever fell into your lap by 'accident'?\n\n* How old are you roughly?",
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"body": "I live out of a suitcase too and I travel probably 60% of the year. I've been traveling for about 8 years now. I do it for the money, and I like traveling, so being paid to travel is pretty nice. \n\nMy questions are oriented towards things I think about:\n\n* When you're home, do you feel like you're home, or do you just spend your time getting shit done, doing laundry and getting ready for the next trip?\n* Do you own a house or apartment? Do you have a simple thing like a plant, fish or animal?\n* Are your trips scheduled in advance, or do you go on a day's notice?\n* Are you on expenses, or is it per diem based? \n* How do you deal with restaurant food and bar food night after night?\n* Are you in good physical shape?",
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"body": "Sow how much does it costs your company every year to fly you around? \nWould it not be cheaper to buy a Lear or similar?\nHow about flying or renting a private jet?\n\nAlways wondered what the costs would be for this. ",
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"body": "I am fascinated by tips frequent travelers can share. I noticed our link to the Tom Bihn computer bag. Any other? Such as:\n\n1. Carry on suitcases you may use?\n2. Gadgets that cut down on clutter in your laptop bag?\n3. Do you wear slip-on shoes exclusively to avoid hassles at security?\n4. Packing styles to minimize baggage needed?\n5. Anything else?\n\nI found this movie okay, but like others felt it was overrated. However, I found his traveling habits oddly fascinating, and would like to know more. It reminds me a bit of the opening scenes in \"Accidental Tourist\" where William Hurt outlines tips he has for traveling businessmen.\n\nAnyway, thanks for the AMA.",
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"body": "So do you have a membership to those great Loyalty rewards programs where you can go into uber lounges in airports all over the world?\n\nIF so what are they really like in there and any clues on how the avg redditer would be able to get into them without being in the rewards program?",
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"body": "Do you enjoy flying?\n\nWhat line of work are you in?\n\nDomestic or international?\n\nHaving only flown like 4 times i'm still completely in love with it. ",
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A disparity in intensity. | So I've been mulling it over for a few weeks now, on whether or not I should post about this, and I think that I've had enough time to think about it that I'm pretty confident in what I want.
My girlfriend and I have been dating exclusively for about five months. We are both very busy, and beyond that, our work schedules don't afford us much time to see each other, as she works at night as a bartender, and I have a normal-ish 9-5. For the last three months, until last night in fact, she's been without a cell phone, so the only way that I could contact her was through Facebook, Twitter, and Skype, which I was averse to, because it made me feel like I was stalking her, so any regular communication was pretty much out.
In addition to sparse communication and contact, she was also dealing with a few personal issues that were affecting her not limited to fiscal woes and the loss of a pet. The only time we'd see each other was when I'd go to her house, usually unannounced, or visit her at work, which was less than pleasurable.
Little about me: I'm 25, a working musician in addition to my job, and have an active social life. I tend to be a bit neurotic about things, so long periods of lapse communication really made me nervous. The longer we'd go without talking, the crazier I'd get, the more my imagination would run.
Little about her: She's 24, a working actor, night owl, loner, free spirit. I often felt like she was about to leave me, when all of a sudden she'd snap back into my life and say she misses me.
So my problem now is that I feel like I'm chasing her. I don't want to over pursue her, but there's a lot on my mind that I think we need address.
I know she doesn't want a more intense relationship. She needs her space, and it works for me, too because our schedules don't line up, and we're both so busy, so I guess what I want to know is how do we up the communication without upping ruining what we have? | 6 | [
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"body": "You two simply have to make it a priority to make some quiet time for each other. Think: lay down in bed, have her put her head on your chest, and just talk about life and shit. (Almost) every couple have things pulling them in different directions. You and her just have to make it a priority.\r\n\r\nEdit: Even if it's just a half-hour, once every couple days.",
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"body": "My suggestion is to bring it up without scaring her off.\n\nBasically, I was in a similar situation as you, but I was an idiot and was too direct and forceful about it instead of being open and willing to make smaller changes. She had zero time as she was in law school and I was daydreaming about summer time when we had full weeks together. I basically came at her and said \"I'm so low on your priority list, can't you sometimes just make a little more time for me?\" She was already clearing 1 full day a week for me, which, for anyone familiar with law school, is fucking hard. This made her feel like she couldn't meet my needs, felt it wasn't fair, and broke it off 2 weeks later. I was being selfish and didn't realize it until it was too late.\n\nMoral of the story, approach it cautiously, but openly. Let her know how you feel, but make sure she knows that even small things can help. It probably doesn't need to be an overhaul, just suggest a few things here or there that might help. Don't put the onus on her, put it on the circumstances and help her realize that there may be effective ways to balance everything out.\n\nIf she doesn't go for that, either she really is too busy for what you're looking for, or she isn't interested, in which case you need to dial back what you want at the possible cost of your happiness, or break it off. \n\nI wish you the best possible outcome.",
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"body": "So she got a cell phone yesterday? Shouldn't that allow for regular contact without you feeling stalker-ish?",
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Reddit: What, if anything, makes you feel as if you are living in the future? | For example: today I purchased a laptop on the internet whilst going for a shit in a public toilet. | 6 | [
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"body": "I have robots. *Personal* robots. I have a robot to vacuum my carpets and a robot to clean my cat's litterbox.\n\nI am a god.",
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"body": "Riding the subway over the Manhattan Bridge and watching everyone whip out their cell phones the second we hit daylight.",
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"body": "The internet. Having so much information at your disposal in your own home still amazes me. When I was a child you had to read your encyclopedias or go to the library to look up even the most trivial things. ",
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"body": "saying the words \"january 12th, twenty-ten\"\n\nwe live in fuckin' twenty-ten. i've been freaking out about that for twelve days now",
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"body": "iPhone. \n\nI remember being a kid and marveling at the communicators on star trek. I used to make my own out of cardboard and use them till they fell apart, and never thought I'd live in a world where something so cool would exist. Now every other person has a little computer in their pocket that can do everything a communicator did, plus a thousand times more.",
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Why is "pants" plural? | khakis, capris, shorts, jeans, etc. i mean a shirt is a shirt, but you don't say "i need a new jean". what kind of conspiracy is at work here? | 8 | [
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"body": "i can't find any source to back this up atm, but i believe that pants used to consist of two pieces for each leg that would fasten together instead of just zipping/buttoning up at the fly. ",
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"body": "because, in traditional tailoring techniques, the two leggings were prepared separately and then stitched together to form one item.\n\ndisclaimer: it depends the on language. in some languages, these articles of clothing are singular.",
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Water becomes boring after a while. What are some alternatives or additions you make to change it up? | During my 8 hours at work I will manage ~64 ounces of water but day after day it gets boring. I know its important but are there healthy alternatives or additive that you can use to support drinking the correct amount of fluids each day? | 10 | [
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"body": "Fill a pitcher with sliced cucumber, lemon slices and fresh mint. Let it steep overnight. \n\nIts pretty tasty. ",
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"body": "You don't need 64 ounces of water a day unless you're sweating a ton or have a specific condition that requires you to drink more water. Just drink when you're thirsty until you're not. Your body will tell you if you're not getting enough but it won't tell you when it has enough.\n\nIf you're still worried you're not getting enough water, you could have soup for lunch or add a little juice for flavor. A friend of mine puts about a quarter cup of juice in a big glass of water.",
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Do you think corporations should exist? | Considering that a [corporation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation) is "an institution that is granted a charter recognizing it as a separate legal entity having its own rights, privileges, and liabilities distinct from those of its members," do you think corporations should exist? I'd have to say no - corporations are artificial entities that would not exist in a true free market. I'd imagine each company would have, in documents written up at the time of inception of each company and to be changed when necessary, some way for dealing with liability in the company.
A huge problem with libertarianism (or what is perceived as libertarianism) for most people is that they think corporations would run wild in a libertarian state. I have been pointing out to my "liberal" friends that corporations are creations of the government, and therefore would not exist under [my vision of a] libertarian society.
How do you guys feel about corporations and limited liability in general? | 7 | [
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"body": ">Are corporations themselves mere grants of monopoly privilege? Some advocates of the free market were persuaded to accept this view by Walter Lippmann's The Good Society. It should be clear from previous discussion, however, that corporations are not at all monopolistic privileges; they are free associations of individuals pooling their capital. On the purely free market, such individuals would simply announce to their creditors that their liability is limited to the capital specifically invested in the corporation, and that beyond this their personal funds are not liable for debts, as they would be under a partnership arrangement. It then rests with the sellers and lenders to this corporation to decide whether or not they will transact business with it. If they do, then they proceed at their own risk. Thus, the government does not grant corporations a privilege of limited liability; anything announced and freely contracted for in advance is a right of a free individual, not a special privilege. It is not necessary that governments grant charters to corporations.\n\n-Murray Rothbard (*Power and Market*, 1970)\n\nKevin Carson has a pretty good chapter that talks about how corporations grow much larger than would be efficient in a freer market in his *Organization Theory* ([PDF, Chapter 3:State Policies That Promote Corporate Size and Centralization](http://members.tripod.com/kevin_carson/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/Chapter3.pdf))\n\nI'm not opposed to joint-stock ownership, but I am opposed to the way state-incorporation is now.",
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"body": "I agree. Corporations should not have the same rights as people. As for liabilities and shares, I'm torn. Being able to buy shares of a company is important, but I certainly wouldn't want to see shareholders individually sued if they only owned shares and had nothing to do with operations.\n\nSomething needs to change though. Corporations today seem to be running rampant.",
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What do us Shredditors do for a living? | What is your occupation? etc
Currently I'm a student studying HNC Computing. Hoping to either go into teaching computing or maybe become a programmer or something. | 16 | [
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"body": "Linux Admin.\n\nThe best part is, I get to crank metal at work all day in my own office, and since my door is directly across from the women's bathroom, I get to snicker at the hilarious looks I get. \\m/",
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"body": "Right now I'm a student who babysits and tutors on the side. Not bad for a 16 year old.\n\nBut the future goal is surgeon. Mostly for the helping people part...but also because I'll get paid to cut people open.",
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"body": "Work in chemical plant. I'm on the grass crew at the moment. Gonna be a dump-truck driver before long tho.\n\n*Favorite Band **Gojira**\n\n*Favorite Album **The Way of All Flesh**",
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"body": "I work for an insurance company, dealing with Medicare type insurance plans. Pretty metal.. /sarcasm.",
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Has anybody ever gotten a completely clean patch back from their barrel? | Ive been cleaning guns since I was 5. Neither I, nor anybody I know, has gotten a completely, 100% clean patch back from a barrel. Ive used different solvents and solutions, but the patch always has some speck or smudge of grunge on it. It doesn't matter if I use 20+ patches, they never look brand new. Does anybody else have this problem or am I a bad gun owner? | 14 | [
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"body": "Anyone having done active duty military service, especially combat arms, will answer this to the affirmative. 20 patches? You haven't even gotten started yet. We would spend a minimum of 4 hours (yes, that's right, *minimum*) cleaning a single weapon after a range day. \r\n\r\n\r\nSince I left the military? Not on your life. I've got better things to do. I barely keep 'em clean at all. Barrels are cheap. My time is not. ",
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"body": "It's just gonna get dirty next time you shoot it, what's the point? Unless we're talking about corrosive ammo cleaning is mainly to ensure reliable operation.",
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"body": "Nope.. i imagined using brake cleaner and just spraying the bore down and going to work with a cleaning rod... I don't really see the purpose of a barrel being that clean especially if it is a range gun that sees consistent usage. ",
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"body": "This is going to sound crazy, but if you ever want to get a barrel truly sparkling clean without running a bajillion patches through it, use mild dish soap and water. Let it soak in warm soapy water for ten minutes or so then scrub the barrel with a cloth patch. Just make sure you get it rinsed and completely dry when you're done and lightly oil it and your barrel will be cleaner than when it left the factory.",
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Colour Changing Glass | Lat week I bought a new piece, which the people at teh stor assured me was colour changing, but after a handful of uses, it's still the original colour.
If i were colour changing, how would i make it change? | 13 | [
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"body": "Smoke more.\n\nSeriously, though, it'll take a while, and the changes will be very subtle over time. You could take a picture of it right now to compare with later, or clean it thoroughly to see a difference.",
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"body": "I have a bong made out of color changing glass. When clean, it is clear glass, with a yellowish tint to it, and when it gets dirty, the glass appears blue.\n\nAnother way to see the blue is to hold a black surface under/behind it. Try that with yours, and see if you can notice the change.",
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"body": "colour changing may be more marketing than actual fact... think of it more as darkening\n\nthere are faint colors in there that will darken up as the bowl gets dirtier... and when you clean it it'll be like new again\n\nand i think there are metals they put in sometimes that will blue due to heat... so i guess that is a change\n\n\nnon professional opinion",
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Dear WoW Reddit: So I'm Feral DPS, and I was wondering how you'd feel with me in your random heroic run. | It seems that 3/5 or 4/5 random heroic runs are with 2 other DPSers who have 3500+ DPS. I usually run ~2200 DPS without super special buffs (pally buffs, scrolls, well fed etc), but with pally buffs I can get ~2700 to 3k. HOWEVER, when I'm in high-DPS groups (ran Forge of Souls where the Tank was so well geared he was at 3k DPS) everything is burned down before I can get much of anything off. This leaves my DPS at about 1200 give or take a few hundred. As a feral druid, my stuff is based on proc's of crits, combo points, and bleeds. I have run many groups where I cant get more than a very weak bleed off on a single target before they're dead. Even feral charging into battle before the DPSers only allows me one or two extra shots.
I am not sure well geared but I have epic shoulders, necklace, helmet, bracers, gloves, belt and pants (about to get my Ebon Blade chest piece). Anyway, would my crappy DPS bother you in a run? | 15 | [
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"body": "My druid is bear/tree so I don't have much personal experience, but I recommend following this guide: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa7/Spleener12/simplecatdps.jpg\n\nAs a cat, though, you should be approaching situations differently depending on the mobs. On a trash pack of 3+ mobs, you shouldn't even bother with a full single-target rotation, just keep SR up and spam swipe. On mobs that don't last very long you should be finishing with FB insead of rip (assuming you're not better off using those CPs to refresh savage roar to use on the next mob instead, of course.) ",
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"body": "Affliction locks have the same problem in heroics. Things just die too damn fast for their DOTs to tick through to their full effect.\n\nA smart player won't worry about it. If you're doing your job to the best of your ability, that's all we can ask for. However, what is annoying are the ret paladins who only auto attack, the mages that wand, the hunters that autoshot, etc. If you're earnestly trying, I think any decent player will be happy to have you in their group even if you're not doing 7K.",
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"body": "I just like it when someone needs an item that drops.\n\nAnyone that knows shit about the game knows that different classes will perform differently in different scenarios.\n\nCats, rogues, spriest, aff locks will all perform very poorly on small packs of weak trash mobs as it takes a bit to ramp up. If they give you shit about it then they're a bad.\n\nOne suggestion I have is don't try to get 5 cp on trash mobs, they'll die and you'll lose them. A 2 or 3 point savage roar will get you through a trash pull and I wouldn't even bother with rip or rake on trash. Spam swipe if its 3 or more mobs, less just do mangle to 2 cp, savage roar, shred a couple times and FB at 5 cp or when you think the mob won't make it any more.\n\nI'm lucky to pull 2.5k dps on trash with my rogue (unless it's a big enough group to use FoK), but on heroic bosses I do 5-7k depending on the buffs the group can give me.",
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"body": "If anyone can do over 1k DPS on a boss, I'm happy to have them along. As long as people know enough not to stand in bad stuff, and not to pull aggro off the tank, and at least have a good idea how to play their class, then I'm happy to PUG with them.",
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"body": "Trash DPS is meaningless (my advice: spam swipe). That said, while bad DPS* does somewhat aggravate me, as a geared druid healer, I can pick up the slack on DPS anywhere except HoR.\n\n*I wouldn't call 2-3k DPS bad, but people who are pushing sub 1k on bosses do annoy me, because that *will* wipe the group on some bosses.",
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"body": "Coming from a full-dps class (Rogue), I personally don't care much. As long as you're not causing wipes on bosses, I don't mind help \"carrying\" lesser-geared players. The same goes for lesser-geared tanks, I don't leave group or throw insults at anybody, I just throw my Tricks of the Trade into my rotation more often to help the tank pull aggro. The only thing I worry about is the healer in my group. I don't have any abilities to help increase their heals, so I just do my best not to get hit by anything.",
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"body": "I'm sitting at about 3900 gs with unfilled sockets. What I do against pulls of 2 or greater is spam Swipe(Cat) and use Tiger's Fury when I'm out of energy. That usually gets me around 3.2k dps depending on the quantity of mobs. On boss fights I spam shred(the one you have to be behind to use) and activate Savage Roar when I'm out of energy. Then I throw on Faerie Fire, rake, shred, shred, tiger's fury, shred, rip, mangle, rake, shred til 5 combo points while keeping mangle up too and reapply savage roar, rinse and repeat. That gets me to 3.6k-3.9k dps depending on buffs and what boss it is.\n\nThat may help you out some.",
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"body": "For single - Get Savage Roar up, keep Rake up, keep Mangle up, Shred for combo points. FB at 4 or 5 CP.\n\nFor 3+ -Keep Savage Roar up and swipe. ",
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"body": "As a tank or dps, it wouldn't bother me as long as you're trying and attacking the skull.\n\nPlenty of things wind me up a lot more than someone struggling with dps.\n\nWe all have to start somewhere :)",
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"body": "Your dps is fine for most stuff. I think you might want to check some of the advice people are giving for the trash mobs. \n\nWhat you want to look at for dps is what you're doing on bosses, what is involved in fighting the bosses. Also, your awareness in a group is super important. You don't know how frustrating it is to have to heal someone that decided to just stand in the green goo on the ground. >.<",
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IWasA Hewlett-Packard salesman and product representative | After seeing [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/aodqt/why_i_believe_printers_are_the_spawn_of_hell_pics/) and the TheOatmeal.com page it links to, I have to say I thought that some of the complaints I saw were overblown, misinformed, or misunderstood, and with this being the case, I thought there might be some interest here in an IamA thread from someone who actually worked in printer sales (and computer sales, and to a lesser extent all the other things that HP sells).
Now, to give you fair warning, this was five or ten years ago, and I haven't really kept up-to-date on the market, so there's really not much I can say about HP's current product line. Additionally, I didn't *technically* work directly for HP, but rather an official contractor - I was one of those guys who hung out in the printer aisle at Best Buy and talked up HP's products.
Anyway, if you have any questions about HP products in general, their policies, or anything about what it's like being an HP salesman, I think I can answer that for ya'!
P.S. - Just to warn you, I'm at work, so please cut me some slack if I don't answer your questions immediately | 7 | [
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"body": "1. Why don't most computer manufacturers include recovery discs in the box? DVDs are very cheap and I would gladly pay 5 more dollars for a computer that included the recovery discs. There is nothing more frustrating than losing your OS after losing a hard drive or upgrading to a better one. And a recovery partition is a joke when what you have lost is the hard drive that holds the recovery partition. And yes, you can create recovery DVDs, but home stamped DVDs don't last very long. And yes, you can order recovery DVDs from the manufacturer but this is at best a hassle.\r\n2. Why are Puerto Rican costumers forcefully redirected to Latin American support personnel? I don't mind speaking to a support representative in English, and my experiences with English speaking support representatives have been a lot better than with their Latin American counterparts.\r\n3. Do you still reject emailed receipts and instead ask for faxed receipts? Why do you do this?\r\n3. Why are printer drivers so heavy.",
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How do you get over someone? | For some context, there was this girl that I really liked, that I met entirely on my own and had a thing for for quite a while but never took any action. Recently I became aware that it's kind of a good thing I didn't do anything because she comes off as extremely vain, manipulative, and self centered. However, I still feel hung up on her and can't seem to make myself realize it was for the best.
tl;dr bitches ain't shit, but how do you make yourself believe that | 12 | [
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"body": "* Step one: Go to the bar, bring friends.\n\n* Step two: Cut of ALL contact w/her. You don't need that noise. Be friendly if she approaches you, but now is a time to focus on you.\n\n* Step three: Improve yourself! Too fat? Get thee to a gym. No hobbies? Take up painting. Unplug your Xbox. Buy yourself a snazzy new suit. Get those vintage sneakers you always wanted. Read a book, for Christ's sake. \n\n* Step four: Be awesome! You'll meet other girls, and after this disappointment, take solace knowing she's just another character-forming experience.\n\nGood luck, and godspeed. ",
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"body": "* Identify your life goals.\n* Formulate plans to execute said goals.\n* Execute plans.\n\nWhen you're working towards your own desires, independent of anyone else, you'll find all your bad feelings fading away. And you'll get the most true sense of satisfaction.",
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"body": "in a similar situation, it's been months. just go out and have fun when you can... try taking up a new activity like salsa or yoga. ",
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Hey r/photography, I'm thinking about buying a Canon EF 50 mm f/1.8 II Lens... | I know you guys highly recommend this and i've heard that it's brilliant quality for a brilliant price.
I own a Canon 350D; and someone told me the 50mm works as a 70mm on an apc sensor. Does this affect me? Apparently it makes the photos a bit tele-photo. Any advice would be brilliant. | 4 | [
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"body": "No matter the crop, you should own the 50. It is doubtful any of your other lenses are even close in speed. No matter Canon nor Nikon, the 50 F1.8 should be a first buy. It is only $100. While the build quality isn't L level, it is only $100. Pick it up, use it. If you don't love it immediately, you will grow to love it.",
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"body": "It was the first lens that I bought for my xt and I absolutely love it. It makes for an amazingly inexpensive portrait lens.",
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"body": "Your cam has a 1.6 crop, so that's actually 80mm. It's a nice lens that's not built real well, so treat it gently.",
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"body": "Another thumbs up here. It was my third lens and I still use it frequently. It feels a little cheap in your hand compared to bigger and more expensive lenses but the glass itself is fantastically sharp and fast. ",
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What do you do with your dog while you are at work? | The reason I am asking this question is because my wife and I tried to adopt a puppy from a rescue and we were denied. We told the lady that the puppy would be crate trained (potty trained using a crate) until it learned. This involves us keeping the puppy in a crate for 6 hours a day until it is potty trained. Then we would open up more rooms of the house to the pup once it gained our trust.
Am I way off in thinking this is what most people do?
Edit: She told us the reason that we were denied is because the puppy would be in a crate for 6 hrs a day. I think she neglected to hear the "until it is trained" part. | 4 | [
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"body": "Well the problem is while they are a puppy you have to let them out more then every 6 hours. Especially when they are younger more like every 2 hours. For the first year I had someone come in at lunch time and take my dog out. Now she is old enough she just chills out and sleeps on the bed. Sometimes she doesn't even bother to get up when I get home now.",
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Announcing the openprinter project
| Account: openprinter-mod
Announcing the openprinter project
Recently in a hardware forum, another user expressed concern about the cost of printer cartridges for a major brand printer. Some resources were made available to him: buy a different brand, buy off-brand cartridges, buy a continuous ink feed system, etc.
Some major printer manufacturers are working to limit these options; circuitry integrated to the ink cartridges limit their ability to be refilled. Whether this is due to wear on the cartridges or their circuitry, or profiteering, is unclear.
A second concern is the limited ability to replace other parts which may be destined to wear out; flimsy paper trays, rollers, or custom connectors or power cords, for instance.
A third concern is undesired patterns that some printers are designed to print, regardless of the user / owner's wishes, on every page, such as described here:
http://seeingyellow.com/
There are other shared pet peeves :
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
reliability, longevity, and cryptic error messages, to name a few.
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Printers: an open source approach can do better.
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A huge user base has built the linux communities into crowds of different areas of concern, focusing on usability, security, interoperability, gaming, and others.
A distinct, but multifaceted group of builders has created [fabathome](http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) and similar projects.
Why can't we create an openprinter project?
Here is my proposal:
I want to build my own printer. There can be exactly one first model, and I'll settle for black and white. Eventually, the project will branch into laser, color laser, and other technologies, but at first, let's try a black and white model. As for a first prototype, I'll even settle for dotmatrix.
I want to be able to create it from noncustom items; there is nothing magical about printing that should restrict me to a certain vendor. Those items that appear to be custom can be approximated:wood /acrylic / metal can be formed to an outer shell, and some inventive thought can give rise to printer cartridges. If you doubt this, examine the "continuous feed systems" available on Ebay.
In some future iteration, I want an integrated print server and a driverless network connection: Let it be capable of direct network connectivity, with a host OS, driver, and network stack on the printer itself. An authorized user can send documents, and statistics can be served or sent to a repository.
I have a $200. - $400 budget for the first prototype, but won't begin purchases before Monday, March 15. That gives us roughly 60 days during which time, in /openprinter_hardware, we'll compile a list of parts and sources.
Does this community desire to create such a printer?
About me: I'm currently the linux4noobs mod. After some startup work, I tend to let that reddit work without my direct intervention.
There are the initial subreddits I'm creating: As this is a new account, I'm facing the rapid-submission filters. Please bear with me, I'll need experts in software design, because I'm clueless there. I personally find it much more fun & easy to tinker tactilely.
[openprinter_announce](http://www.reddit.com/r/openprinter_announce/)
[openprinter_hardware](http://www.reddit.com/r/openprinter_hardware/)
[openprinter_software](http://www.reddit.com/r/openprinter_software/)
[openprinter_discuss](http://www.reddit.com/r/openprinter_discuss/)
[openprinter_network](http://www.reddit.com/r/openprinter_network)
The Openprinter project exists to assist people in creating their own printer for home, business, educational, or or experimental use.
ETA: I have created a [wiki](http://openprinter.wikia.com/wiki/Openprinter_Wiki#Welcome_to_the_OpenPrinter_project) at wikia. Please contribute there!
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"body": "Hmm. Let's go over the hard parts:\n \n* Print head / ink combination. This will be the part that a random person has the least amount of experience with. We've all done stepper motors and gears, but matching up a print head and ink type/specifics is likely hard.\n* Non-paperjamming paper feed. This isn't as easy as it sounds. You need a few sensors to detect a paper jam, in the right spots, as well.\n* Driver. Shouldn't be too hard to do the conversion work necessary in software on the host PC.\n\nThe way I see it, an arduino could handle the logic (turn print head on, move stepper motor 3 degrees, check sensors, etc.) and it's nice and programmable via USB.....slowly, since you'll be doing 56k baud to it.\n\nI've frontpaged the reddit, and will be thinking about this problem.\n\nOh, and one more thing: how come no one has ever done this before? The freaking GPL came about because of a printer driver issue! (Stallman used printer manufacturer's driver, it crashed on things that would be trivial to fix if he had the code, they wouldn't oblige him. He raged. And the rest is history.)",
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"body": "I am a trained male ballerina. I can contribute in any way possible. I also work as a lingerie salesman during the day.",
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"body": "Mechanical Engineer here signing on. I would love to volunteer design/analysis time for any solid parts of the machine. I also have a good deal of fabrication experience. Let me know if you are interested, and I'll be glad to help out.",
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"body": "1. I think starting with ONE subreddit is enough. I recommend you only link to openprinter_discuss or keep it to this announce page. You might get 20 people interested, you don't want them scattered all over the place\n\n2. This concept has been mucking about in my head for months. I believe the most difficult part will be engineering a high quality print head. I only have a rudimentary understanding of the physics involved in an inkjet printer.\n\n3. Everyone knows that ink prices are high, but I'm not confident that cheaper ink systems produce equal quality results. The viscosity, color, and other properties might require expensive ingredients/process. ",
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"body": "Seriously, I think going with dotmatrix is a serious misstep. Much of the effort of developing the printer is in the mechanics of delivering the ink to paper, and the electronics and firmware of controlling that process. You'll spend a lot of time working out the pin actuators, and developing the ribbon cartridge and so forth. Most of this effort I think will be nonportable to an improved inkjet or laser design; I think it will be largely wasted.\n\nI would start with an inkjet, single black printhead. That effort will be easier to duplicate with additional printheads to add color capability, and you can spend more time working out the fundamental issues of why inkjet printers today tend to suck -- heads often not independently replaceable vs. ink tanks, head cleaning apparatuses are designed to wear out or get clogged eventually, etc.",
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"body": "Here's a book on the subject which might be a good starting point:\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Build-Postscript-Laser-Printer-Bundle/dp/0830647384\n\nIt's old, but I assume most of the concepts would be sound even if newer parts are superior and more inexpensive.",
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"body": "I fully support this project and will pass it on to others who support open source. Hopefully I'll be able to help as well.",
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"body": "Totally have my support. I asked reddit [about this a month ago](http://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/ac20x/would_anyone_else_be_interested_in_an_open_source/).",
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Reddit, I am taking the MCAT on April 10th. Any suggestions, study tips, words of wisdom etc??? | I am currently studying for the test, I have enough time to retest in August if need be. I have examkrackers complete study package, I am currently enrolled in Organic Chemistry, and I have a Bachelors Degree in Human Physiology and Psychology. Any tips, hints, website, other info, or just words of encouragement would be greatly appreciated!!! | 4 | [
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"body": "You know what they call the person who graduates Med School with the lowest GPA? \n\n-Doctor\n\n\nGood luck. Don't stress out too much.",
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older player looking for a role playing corp | I'm currently finding eve a bit on the blah side recently and though that i might like to try a rp corp out. One thing im not looking to get into is a large corp like 40 members it to many for me the alliance can be as big as it wants though or none at all. Dont really care if its mining industry pvp yarr or whatever. If you are in or know of a corp that i might like i would love to hear about it. You can contact me in game as puppit or magnus duvane or just reply here. (sorry if i did something wrong tis my first post.)
Edit: well just got off work thanks for all the recommendations. I knew about CVA not sure about joining another sov holding alliance. Ill be looking into theses other corps in a few minutes here :D. | 7 | [
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"body": "You are in luck good sir, I recently subscribed to the EON Magazine ( eve themed magazine ) and in this issue is an article about role playing in eve.\n\nBasically they state that there are more roleplaying corps than you think and give a short list.\n\n\n• **Gallente** [Strix Armaments and Defense](http://www.strix-group.com) \n• **Caldari** [Caldari Independant Navy Reserve](http://www.cain.excidium.net) \n• **Minmitar** [Ushra'khan](http://www.ushrakhan.com) \n• **Amarr** [Curatores Veritatis Alliance](http://www.cva-eve.org) \n• **Pirate** Guristas [Veto](http://www.veto.get-no.de) \n• **Pirate** Angel Cartel [Ghost Cartel](http://www.ghostfestival.net) \n\nThey also mention joining the channel \" The Summit \" for discussing in-game politics while in character. \n\nHope this helps\n\n",
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"body": "your post is fine. one tangent though: eve people aren't as logged as often as most other MMO players and span more timezones. as so, a 40 person corp probably would have 4-8 people on at any one time, maybe 18 for a really important event with advanced notice. \n\nhaving said that best role playing groups:\n\n* star fraction (faction warfare alliance)\n* CVA and the various Holders in providence (0.0 extension of Amarr empire)\n\nthere's also Ushrakhan (minmatar terrorists) and Veto (guristas pirates) but they tend to be more PVP hardcore and have harder to get into requirements\n\ni would really recommend checking out Fidelas Constans alliance and the corps in it. they're a minor holder (2 sov, 1 station) in providence, allied with CVA and are part of that RP block. it's sorta exciting in Providence right now since dominion gave them a lot of options, enough that they're actually taking part in the greater eve end game for the first time by poking into AAA empire to the southwest",
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"body": "My main is in [Re-Awakened Technologies Inc](http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1222426&page=1#1), a corp in [Electus Matari](http://www.electusmatari.com/forums/) alliance, and has been in the same corp in the past (probably 7 or so months total). They're a good group and pretty laid back, pretty much always a war running, you can mission, mine, PVP, whatever. There's another alliance corp called Gradient that might lean more towards PvP if that's your thing. Convo Treyvn (yes, that's a y *before* the v) for Re-Aw recruitment, or just check out the forums I linked above to read about the different corps.\n\n\\*Edit: Gradient has an in-game chat room called Gradient, also.\n\n\\*Edit2: Added link to Eve forums post about Re-Aw, which itself also has a link to a detailed overview of EM.",
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Best place for a winter wedding? | So I just proposed to my girlfriend a few days ago and we are trying to find a good place for the wedding. We have already decided on the date, or at least a general idea, we are thinking Dec. 11th (12-11-10 :). We've looked at a couple websites for places that are nice, but nothing has really struck us as "the place". Obviously only being engaged a couple days now, it's not expected to have found a place yet, but we would like to start looking around.
Basically just looking for suggestions, don't really know what to expect as a response, as this is my first time actually using my account for anything on reddit, haha.
I live in the Gresham area, and she is currently going to school at UP (North Portland). Anything in or around Portland is acceptable. I like more modern feel for things, and she tends to like more "classic" older things/places. Open to any suggestions really, just want to see what kind of places are out there.
Thanks...
Edit: I suppose I should have said, as a couple people have asked, we are looking at having around 150 people there. | 7 | [
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"body": "Judging from the last two years, you have planned your wedding for a really really cold, really snowy part of the month. :)\n\nDepends on how many people you are expecting, and if you want to be indoors or out, but... off the top of my head:\n\n* Pioneer Courthouse Square. \n\n* Hoyt Arboretum, the big hill cattycorner across the street from the Vietnam Memorial.\n\n* The pond behind the Audubon Society building\n\n* Inside Vista House\n\n* Inside the Forestry Center (in Washington Park)\n\n* The stage area inside the volcano crater at Mt. Tabor. (The only extinct volcano within city limits in the continental US!)\n\n* The Church of Elvis\n\n* Inside the aviary at the Zoo (nice and warm in there!)\n\n",
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Ladies and Gentlemen of Reddit, please tell us a true story about yourself. | I'll post mine up later on today, it involves drugs, hitchhikers, towed cars and there's also some sex. (oo!)
Update: Ok so this is a story in two parts, but before I start, I got to say, Deadybear wins this thread as far as I'm concerned, if there can be a winner, you're it.
**Preamble**
So back when I was 21 I was a day-in-day out stoner, used to do a lot of acid too, in fact I had been for several years at that point, and would go on to live that way for several more years... The thing about that time was there was hardly any internet to speak of (certainly hardly anyone on it), and mobile phones were still rare. So when events just synched up, it would feel like magic, and the word synchronicity really meant something to me. This is a story about those strange connection, when I re-tell these events, I'm certainly going to lose some of the strangeness in the retelling, so I'll try and keep it entertaining anyway... Let's all hope it works out that way anyway, because it will be pretty long.
Part [one](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aotim/ladies_and_gentlemen_of_reddit_please_tell_us_a/c0ior4i), [two](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aotim/ladies_and_gentlemen_of_reddit_please_tell_us_a/c0ior69), [three and four](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aotim/ladies_and_gentlemen_of_reddit_please_tell_us_a/c0ior6g) are in the comments...
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"body": "I'll tell you a story reddit.....\r\nWhile working as a bouncer I witnessed a dude, probably 6'2\" and 220 walk up to a petite woman and sucker punch her in the face with all force he could muster. As she falls unconscious to the ground he keeps wailing on her. I run over, just as three of his friends come pouring out of the bar and start taking swings at every guy within about 4m. Dude who started the whole thing starts running away as I'm wrestling one of his buddies to the ground. I look up to see that the dude was hiding behind a car, and just as another bouncer comes up the street looking for him, dude pops out and punches him in the face. Now this bouncer is tougher than shit, former Marine sniper, and never ever has to raise his voice. The bouncer puts down his mobile (he was on the phone with 911), and in a three piece suit just goes to town on the dude. \r\n\r\nThey both go down, and since they're in a shadow I can't see what's happening. My guy is unconscious from a sleeper hold, so I run over to help the other bouncer. As I get close I sense someone coming up behind me, and its one of the dude's friends. I tell him, 'stop right now, cause I don't want to hurt you, an you don't want to hurt me. Walk away now and you don't spend the night in jail like your buddies are gonna.' He starts backing away, and I turn back to the other bouncer. I lean over and say, 'Are you okay?', just as my world explodes. The dude's buddy had come up behind me, grabbed the 3-cell mag light out of my back pocket, and smacked me across the face with it. \r\n\r\nStaggered I fell on to a car for a moment while I restarted system. When I turned around the buddy was trying to kick the other bouncer in the face as he was still wrestling on the ground. I ran up to the buddy, grabbed him by the collar, locked my elbow straight, and started coming over the top on him. I stood him like that for a good solid 45 seconds, and when I let go he pretty much crumpled to the ground. I put my arms up in the air as the first cop car arrives, and show them my ID so they know I'm a bouncer. Dude who started the whole thing now starts running toward the cops screaming, 'I'm gonna kill you!' whilst the laser sights on their sidearms dance on his chest. They eventually take him down with the tazer. (I'm normally against those things, but man did it work on him) \r\n\r\nWith the situation under control somewhat I ran to go close the bar down considering that all the bouncers were bleeding and about a half dozen cop cars were on scene. I ran past a mirror outside the bar's entrance, and saw that my nose was bent askew, and that blood was pouring out of my nose, eyes, mouth, and ear. I run in to the bar to get the first aide kit, and one of the bar backs starts to throw up when she sees me. \r\n\r\nThe best part of the story is probably that while at the hospital they soaked a gauze pad in liquid cocaine and shoved it up my nose to stop the bleeding. I still have the doctor's note that says, 'If deadybear tests positive for cocaine in the next week, please contact us for confirmation that we dispensed it to him as part of a medical treatment, etc. etc.'\r\n\r\n**tl;dr** I got hit in the face with a 3-cell mag while working as a bouncer. ",
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"body": "A couple years ago, I went out to get milk and once I came back, some guys broke into my place and started threatening me. Turns out, they had the wrong guy, and for some reason, before leaving, one guy peed on my rug. I found the guy they were looking for to have him reimburse me for the rug, but he wouldn't so I ended up just conning his servant into hauling one out to my car.",
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"body": "I once wrestled a sea turtle underwater. I was doing some research diving off the shore of Key Largo, and my dive buddy and I were swimming along when we noticed a big loggerhead sea turtle. It was tangled in heavy gauge fishing line. So I grabbed onto the back of the turtle's shell while my dive buddy grabbed her scissors (underwater scientists always carry scissors--never know when they might come in handy). She cut off the line while I tried to wrangle the turtle, which was writhing around like crazy. We got the line off of it, and it swam happily away. To this day this remains one of my best diving stories.",
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"body": "Once I had a dog. She went behind a reclainer and started squealing. She had long hair and sometimes when she scratched herself, the nails would get caught in the hair. Well i figured what the heck, and got on the chair to peek over it, whats wrong with her. And the second i did that, the back of the chair, that wasn`t properly fixed, fell, and I along with it. Next thing i remember is that my eye relly hurts and i ran to the bathroom to see whats wrong. It turns out i hit my eye against the radiator and cut it open. I could close my eyelid, but still see. The wors part was, that I was home alone and like 10 years old. So I just waited an hour or so, before my parrents got home, meanwhile bleeding and slowly getting dizzy from the bloodloss.",
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"body": "Saturday night at my place of business, a fast food fish restaurant, my manager decided it would be hilarious if he said, \"I'm going to shank you!\"\nHe then preceded to pull out a knife, unfasten the blade, and go in for a \"stab.\" Before he made contact with my stomach, he turns the blade around so he's hitting my stomach with the back end of the knife. After several \"stabs\" he pulls back one final time to \"finish me off\" except when he does so, he ends up stabbing my thumb, so bad in fact that the cut went all the way down to the bone. Needless to say, my thumb didn't stop bleeding for 5 hours. I now will have a gnarly scar on my thumb that I'm going to have to live with for the rest of my life. Moral of the story, don't work fast-food.",
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"body": "Anyone up for a game of two truths and a lie as well, reddit style?\n\n [link here](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aouz3/ladies_and_gentlemen_of_reddit_lets_play_two/) if you're interested. Carry on!",
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"body": "So I was about 9 living in a Bahrain, a small island off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Normal day in school. Took the school bus back home. It stopped right in front of my house, and I got off it. However, me being the smart ass I am, I decided to walk around the bus from the front since it was closer. The bus driver does not notice me because of my height, and hits the gas. So here I am trying to keep up with the bus pushing me from behind, obviously I can not for long. So I trip, and the thing just drives right over me. Still remember the underside of the bus to this day. I get up off the street and notice people have stopped their cars and got out to see if I was ok. I was fine till I saw my mom looking at me crying from the window. True story. I am 20 now.",
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"body": "I have never had a female friend that was attractive that was just a friend. I feel this is a big shortcoming of mine because, to me, it means that I am incapable of treating a woman the same as a man. Even though I don't feel that way.\r\n\r\nI have recently been trying to just make friends, but it just doesn't work. This occured to me when an ex pointed it out and it was a shock to see it was true. ",
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"body": "This only happened a few minutes ago as My daughter and I were having lunch. \n\n\nWe were sitting outside a lovely little cafe when some feral little street rat started taunting a security guard a few feet away. The rat was trying to rev up the guard by giving him little taps to the chin when out of nowhere came a right hook to the side of the street rats face and down he fell. \n\n\n\nIt was quite amusing. \n\n\n\n\nAlso my beautiful 4 year old just went up to the checkout at the cafe and ordered and paid for a bottle of water. The first thing she has ever bought. I know it's not really exciting for you guys but I am so proud. She was so polite. \n\n\n\nYep I'm a bore :) :) ",
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"body": "When I was about 7 years old I was at an all-you-can-eat buffet with my family. My mother nudges my father and points to a man I’ve never seen before and says “Honey, look! It’s that one actor, that one guy from Cocoon!” \r\n\r\nMy dad seemed to be very confident he knew this person. He then asked me to go ask this man a simple question. Seeing my father excited to see this person, I walked up to this man, who I’ve never seen before, and say to him “Excuse me, sir?” He turns and with a smile, replies “Yes?” I say “Are you William Brimford?” His smile quickly turned into a disapproving frown.\r\n\r\nNeedless to say, the memory I will forever have of Wilford Brimley will be his complete disapproval. ",
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"body": "Ok, here's a quick one, I've thought about the original story and it requires that I tell at least one other story for some of the details to be truly awesome. So that comes later. But here is a very short story about living a quiet life in South London, SW2.\n\nSo I used to live in Brixton, and generally ever had any sort of trouble, pretty much 50% of the people I knew there had been mugged or attacked at some point, I was pretty lucky, a stolen Motorbike and my BMW were broken into, and one Christmas when I was away my apartment was broken into and the presents were stolen. (although not the big fucking TV.) But these stories are lame.\n\nso anyway, I'm sleeping late, I think it's a weekend, maybe Saturday morning, I'm suddenly awoken by some serious noise going on outside my front door.\n\nIt sounds like someone is trying to bust down the door, and then suddenly the noise stops and there is a scream, I've never heard anything like it, but it's the scream of a man in some serious pain.\n\nI get out of bed really fast and start hunting around my bedroom for something blunt or fucking sharp. I grab a golf club and go out to the lounge to see what's going on.\n\nThere's no one in the apartment, but I suddenly hear the noise of a few men outside, and there sounds like a scuffle.\n\nI go to the front door and open it up stepping back so I can brandish the golf club at my wood be home invaders, there's no one there. so I look out the door and 2 cops have got hold of this guy wearing smart looking clothes, and are bundling him down the stairs.\n\nI look out the window and see them lead him off to a police car and drive off.\n\nThat's all I saw, and I wondered when the cops were going to come back and explain what the fuck had happened.\n\nThey never did.",
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So I told her... What next? | To cut a long story short I was friend zoned (although I don't really go for the whole friend zone phenomenon). She is amazing, funny and really different from other girls in that she seems to have this understanding for other people and their problems. She knew that there was a girl I was interested in but not who, although I wasn't hiding it too much. I thought because of her personality and our friendship she could deal with me telling her I like her maturely, turns out that isn't the case. I texted on boxing day outlining my feelings and got back one text saying 'what do you want me to say' and then wouldn't reply to me. I went away with some friends for NYE and she told a friend we were going with to tell me we would clear things up when I got back, didn't even bother telling me herself.
I got back and initiated another text conversation (didn't really want to call her, no chance of meeting up I've figured out by this point). Got the same what do you want me to say. I told her that really she has control and she can either ditch being friends with me, stay friends or say yes. We discussed how she had suspected something but wasn't ready for it to come out into the open. I said that I felt it was better to put it out there than to just ignore it/spend months hating myself or lying to both of us. I also told her I wasn't expecting a yes (she still hasn't said no..) but her way of dealing with this hadn't been exactly ideal.
She said she wanted some time to think about it before getting back to me, so I IMd her the next day and she said to give her at least a week. It's been 10 days now and I don't know whether to wait for her to say something, or initiate again. Did I do the right thing maning up and telling her? Even then if she says she just wants to be friends would I be better off cutting ties for my own sanity? Sorry for yet another post like this Reddit, I tried to keep it as brief as I could. Oh and I'm male, 17 but left HS and we are both starting uni next month. | 9 | [
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"body": "When you get to uni next month and there are tons of new to you hot girls, remember:\n\naction, not words",
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"body": "Ignore her, as much as possible. \nOne of two things will happen. Either A) you will get over her and find someone new or 2) she will start texting/calling/im'ing you in which case you just play it cool.",
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"body": "Don't ask someone out using texting. The girl is forced to say no even if she wanted to say yes, because texting doesn't allow you two to really show feelings.\n\nAlways ask face to face.\n\nBasically, in my opinion, it's too late now. There's not much you can really do except let her go. Which btw, if you do truly let her go, it has the greatest chance of her coming back (if she decides she feels to be with you she WILL come back). But you haveta take that first step and let her go.\n\nBottom line, the more you try to go out with her, the more distant she will get from you.",
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"body": "You ruined it, when, like a complete tool, you had this conversation via texts and IMs, and did in the most clingy unconfident way possible. \n\nForget this girl, it will never happen. The next time, do everything in the exact opposite way. \n\n* Don't wait so long. Make sure to take advantage of that twilight period, pre se.\n* Don't do it over text.\n\n* Don't just lay it all out there. Be subtle.\n\n* Don't put all the power in her hands by telling her it up to her (very unconfident) Be the kind of confident that would make her want you.\n\nNo offense. You're young, you'll figure it out with time.\n",
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Skeptics dating people who believe in psychics? | Or ghosts, astrology, crystals, any and all of the assorted bag of pseudoscience. There was a recent episode of the big bang theory where one of the main characters started laughing when his girlfriend mentioned going to a psychic. A lot of the episode was focused on coming to terms with it. I was a bit surprised to see a mainstream show touch on that, and it made me realize this is an actual concern.
I was wondering if anyone with a scientific mindset had also been through this. Dating someone who essentially believes in magic. Earlier on, I didn't think this would be worth even giving much thought to. But more and more I'm starting to suspect that believing in things like that is evidence of a really alien worldview that just will never mesh with a skeptical mindset.
Can a person with an evidence based mindset be happy with someone who believes in the paranormal? | 5 | [
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"body": "My ex truly believed in psychics, going so far as to spend $60 an hour getting readings. This psychic would then tell her how she saw psychic potential in my ex and would proceed to sell her all sorts of merchandise. \n\nAfter 6 months of dealing with crazy psychic talk I took matters into my own hands. I volunteered to get a reading. The timing was perfect, I had just had a very tragic death in the family, something any psychic worth $60/hour should be able to detect. \n\nThe psychic began by listing dead relatives, grasping at straws. Eventually she came up with a dead relative I was satisfied with (a dead brother that I didn't have) and I let her invent this persona from thin air. My ex sat in the corner of the room, expressionless. For the next 50 minutes I received loving advice from my fairytale dead brother complete with tears (from both the psychic and I). \n\nWhen the session was over, we left without a word being said and that was the last time I had to listen to any psychic babble talk.",
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"body": "They can going by how you worded your post. You were very careful not to say the other person is wrong. Seriously how often does psychic or magic come up in your daily conversation? The one time in 100 it does just bite your tounge and they have to do the same.\n\nIf you had said \"HOW CAN SOMEONE RIGHT BE WITH SOMEONE WHO IS WRONG!!???\" I would've said no.\n\n",
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"body": "I think it depends on how far into it they are. I'm into the paranormal. I love Coast to Coast AM, I watch Ghosthunters, I go to psychics now and then, (I hate Xfiles though)... but I don't let it run my life. I have fun with it. I've been to both the bad and good psychics. My exes usually just made fun of me here and there, roll their eyes and let it at that. They never held it against me and I wouldn't be with them if they did. It's not a death sentence unless they are really really freaky about it as in starting to sacrifice animals for the love of magic type deal. And I've met some pretty crazy people and you can usually tell who those people are. But I'm a pretty normal girl. People are different and believe in different things...it happens. And like someone said \"How many times does it come up daily?\" It's just an interest just like music is to me.",
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I need advice on relocating to Canada! | Hi.
I currently live in France. Finished college in 2008 with an engineering degree in embedded systems (that' CS + Electronics) and have been working as a consultant since then; and I can't stand it. It was only meant to be a 6 months job, but lasted because of the depression (I had to eat and finding another job was no easy task).
Now I'm ready to set myself free. And Canada seems like a great choice to start over a career in embedded systems.
Do you have any advice? Companies I should know of? Traps I should avoid?
Edit: Thank you very much for your help. I have already started filling up the "qualified worker residence permit demand" or whatever it is called, and it is a PITA. I do wonder if it gets easier if I already have a job offer.
Indeed.ca seems good. All I had till now was monster.ca, which got me nowhere.
Québec French accent is very disturbing, BUT, some say that it is much closer to the way French was spoken during 17 an 18th century. We will probably never know for sure.
Right now I work as a security consultant. Not my field at all. Consulting is more about word and powerpoint skills than anything else.
I have already thought of RIM. I will also try QNX and that oil thing. Being born in Iran, it might even be useful.
Thank you again. I was totally lost. Reddit is magic! | 5 | [
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"body": "If you are planning to live in Quebec, note that it has its own immigration system and selection criteria.",
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"body": "I've heard from two interesting gents from France that Quebec French is the equivalent of hearing a redneck yokel to an English speaker. \n\nSo...beware. And do tell me if it's true. ",
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"body": "QNX is in Ottawa, they do embedded stuff. Not sure who else\n\nSkilled worker + Francophone means you should have no problem getting in.",
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"body": "Most tech in Canada is in Toronto or Vancouver. However, if you would like to exploit your ability to speak French, you should also look in Ottawa and Montreal.\n\nI graduated the same time, with essentially the same degree as you and am living in Halifax (on the east coast). You won't find any jobs in embedded systems here, but you can get into ship and oil-rig work pretty easily it seems (regardless of your background, they'll take anyone and give them tons of responsibility right away it seems).\n\nOn the flip-side, if I wanted to go work in France for a year or two, where should I look? I got to visit Paris last year and loved it...",
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"body": "If you're okay working with Blackberrys, RIM's a job vacuum in south-western Ontario. It seems just about every other tech worker in the region gets sucked into RIM.",
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"body": "The first thing you have to understand is that Canada is organized as a [federation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism), and each province/territory has its own idiosyncratic policies and programs. You can learn a bit about the individual provinces and territories by following the links [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada).\n\n[This website](http://www.cbc.ca/news/becomingcanadian/index.html) provides a useful overview of the federal immigration process. There is another route you can take, which I don't believe is mentioned anywhere on the CBC website, called the [Provincial Nominee Program](http://www.cic.gc.ca/EnGLish/immigrate/provincial/index.asp).\n\nFor more information, I suggest you consult the [Canadian consulate in France](http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/canada-europa/france/menu-en.asp). You may also wish to get in touch with an ['immigration consultant,'](http://www.csic-scci.ca/) but be aware that some of these folks can be a bit shady. \n\n*Edit:* A plug for my home province of [Saskatchewan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan): there are a number of 'tech' businesses (I'm not in the industry so that's the only way I know to describe them) clustered in the 'Innovation Place' research parks in Saskatoon and Regina. \n\nOne of the long-term economic trends in Canada is the migration of economic activity from the eastern provinces of Ontario and Quebec to the [energy-rich](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_Oil_Sands) western provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. My two-cent introduction to western Canada: [great people](http://npac.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Riders.jpg), [shitty politics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservatism_in_Canada#The_role_of_conservatism_in_western_Canada), [shittier weather](http://www.members.shaw.ca/bonnie.thompson/Blizzard%20002.jpg). ",
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My response to a fundie claiming that without god we would all be murdering and raping one another. Feel free to tweak and use. | Hello,
The problem with you godbots is that you don't read anything other than your bible--and most of you don't even read that.
Where does behavior that we call "moral" come from?
Answer: Trial & Error over many thousands of years.
Suppose you start off with two tribes at the beginning of life on earth. In one members can beat up, rape, rob, and murder other members.
In the other tribe, the members have come to the conclusion that such behavior is destructive and harms everyone. So they have established rules against such behaviours and punishments for anyone who breaks them.
Which tribe will survive and prosper over time? Whose example will other tribes copy and take on as their own?
You guessed right. (At least I hope you did.)
Mankind worked this problem out hundreds of thousands of years ago--long before your imaginary friend and his dad were invented.
Every ancient civilization has the Golden Rule. (You can google this.)
Ever read about the ancient Greeks and their discussions about morality and ethics 300 to 500 years before JC arrived? Going from the ancient Greeks to the OT and NT is like going from Yale to Podunk Community College in Arkansas.
And here's the final point: even primates have figured out that you need rules for a community to work.
In other words, no Jebus and his dad needed.
You are the victim of the longest running troll in history.
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Nietzsche
"If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?" - Robert G. Ingersoll
We must respect the other man's religion, but only to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are smart. - H.L. Mencken | 31 | [
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"body": "Anyone who you want to actually influence with this will stop reading at \"godbots.\" We have to find a way to provide rational arguments to religious people without being blatantly offensive.",
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"body": "Tone it down. Take the higher road and don't resort to insults. Be rational and polite.\n\nRight now you're just coming off as an ass, and it undermines the point you're trying to make.",
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"body": "I just say to them \"Wait. So if you didn't read the bible you wouldn't be able to figure out the moral difference between volunteering at a soup kitchen and raping a child?\"",
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"body": "This is what I read when I put on my \"faith\" glasses:\n\n\"You Know that book you have blind faith in. Well here's some of that sciency stuff you don't believe in that says it's wrong...\"\n\n",
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"body": "\"Conscience\" is what keeps us from murdering and raping, and people of all faiths and no faith can all have a conscience. Persons without a conscience are called sociopathic or psychopathic. Religion has nothing to do with the development of or lack of a conscience - that has more to do with genetics, culture, and how you are treated as a child. ",
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"body": "Disclaimer: I'm a Christian.\n\nDo you realize that the Bible [teaches](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%203:9-23&version=NIV) that everyone knows what is morally - even those people without Jewish laws guiding them? For this reason, nobody has an excuse when we miss the mark, and we all require forgiveness when we go wrong.\n\nI think if you are \"arguing\" this against Christians you may have missed the point of what they might be saying.",
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To circumcise or not? Were you? Did you? Would you? | I just read an article about it and then wondered what Reddit thinks about the issue. If you're male, are you circumcised? And if you have a son, did you have him circumcised? What about those of you expecting boys? Will you have it done? | 4 | [
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"body": "Back in the day when I had my boys it was still thought of the medically correct thing to do and, being young, didn't question it. If I had to do it over again I wouldn't because there really isn't a need.",
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"body": "I am circ'd, and it was done because it was the \"normal\" thing to do. I would never do it to any son I had, as it is quite obviously genital mutilation, and should be outlawed.\n\nDespite what parents have been told over the years, keeping your foreskin does not make you more prone to cancer, AIDS or any other disease. And assuming you shower regularly, cleaning out the smegma shouldn't be any big deal.\n\nIt pisses me off that a piece of me was cut away, and it has no doubt affected my enjoyment of sex (though: How could I tell?). I would never do that to someone I supposedly loved.",
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"body": "I just put myself on the waiting list to have it done. Not all that happy, but it needs doing. \n\n*edit: non-retracting foreskin (phimosis). I'm 19. Been using cream and stretching since September, made no progress. Went to see a urologist today and he recommended the surgery.",
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"body": "I wonder how my orgasms would be if I was not snipped? The less a piece of skin is touched, the more sensitive it is to touch. If Pedro was always wearing a turtle neck, I imagine he would be a lot more sensitive than he is now. Wish he was left alone.",
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"body": "When my boys got older (about 8) I told them I couldn't do it to a baby but if they wanted to go in and get it done, I'd pay for it.",
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"body": "First, if it matters: It wasn't my choice.\n\nSecond, it doesn't matter but in case you wondered: I am not Jewish.\n\nThe only thing I remember is afterward, I couldn't walk for a year.",
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"body": "I'm circumcised, and I don't really have a problem with it, but if I had a son he wouldn't be circumcised. \n\n",
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"body": "I have three sons. They're all intact. \r\n\r\nMy husband and I looked at it this way...if they are intact and decide they want to circ, they have the option. Vice versa, not so much.",
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"body": "I was circumcised. I don't care. What I do care about is how people go on about how evil it is to others who were circumcised not by choice. What do you want me to do, grow it back and make a shrine?",
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I don't really understand why creationists keep referring to evolution as a process of chance. | Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't the concept of chance imply one thing or another? If something has a 50% chance to succeed then it also has a 50% chance of failure, which means that even if it fails there will be a result.
Lets say the success of humans developing a better eye bets black on a roulette game and the failure of that very concept bets red (the opposite). Say, hypothetically, that it lands on red. Well then the human species may have not developed a better eye, but that doesn't mean we cease to exist completely because of that. It just means that as a result of the chance we don't have better eyesight than we would have if the evolutionary change succeeded.
Any thoughts? | 20 | [
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"body": "Because if they also paid attention to the natural selection aspect of it then they might understand the process. They can't have that.",
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"body": "One of two reasons...\n\n#1. They don't understand the science, and deliberately close their minds (la-la-la-la I can't hear your Satanic lies!) every time it's explained to them.\n\nor\n\n#2. They do understand the science, but are deliberately \"telling lies for God\".\n",
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"body": "That is basically how it works. A little bit of sight is better than none at all. And a lot more sight is better than just a little bit. This is how complex systems are gradually produced by natural selection.\n\nCreationists love to use the chance argument for one of two reasons:\n\n1. They truly don't understand how natural selection works and have been misled by people\n\n2. They love to construct an easy strawman to tear down. This is just a rhetorical trick used in \"debates\".",
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"body": "As see0red says, it's not in their interest to publicly understand. Some of them surely understand in private.\n\nThere are two major components to evolution:\n\n1. Change: mutations, copying errors, etc. This part really <b>is</b> random, and may produce better or worse forms. Usually worse.\n\n2. Selection: nature favors better forms over worse ones. This part is not random at all.",
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"body": "You're assuming far better understanding of the principles of natural selection than creationists allow themselves. The mental picture they like to paint is the one of a tornado assembling a Boeing 747 from a scrap heap; that everything came to be awesome through a perfect sequence of impossibly lucky chance events.",
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"body": "Evolution is hard. It's biology, archeology, history, paleontology, geology, and a whole bunch of reading. You have to understand concepts like speciation. I'm not saying they're not smart enough, per se, but it does take effort. For the average dude waiting for American Idol to start, I'm not sure he has the motivation to work through multiple disciplines and come to a conclusion. \n\nChurch, on the hand, is easy. They tell you what to think. \n\nAnd besides, believing in Adam and Noah and Jonah and Job means you're still in the majority. Not only is thinking hard, you have to be willing to be alone-ish. ",
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I made a dance remix of Deathcab's "Title and Registration" Looking for some feedback... | Hey everybody, I made this dance remix of Deathcab's "Title and Registration" a few years ago. It got played at some parties in college but that's about it...
http://www.myspace.com/djpukeskywalker
I can post a download link if there is any interest
I'm looking for some constructive criticism... I'm working on a new remix for a smaller band and want to get back into doing more of these
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**edit:** soundcloud for those who would like to download
http://soundcloud.com/user5402480/death-cab-for-cutie-title-and-registration-pukeskywalker-mix | 10 | [
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"body": "It's a very cutesy song and you complimented that very well by not using edgy percussion or sharp synths. \n\nIt's well balanced but I feel you could do a lot more if you had the multi tracks of the original, It sounds more like a mashup as is but you've done extremely well with the resources you had.\n\nThe clap I find a little irritating, like it's been stretched out a bit too much. I'd probably clean that up or resample a cleaner and breathier clap or even a real snare drum would fit in pretty nicely there.\n\nIn summary - Many kudos :)",
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Is a full-featured (w/ R,L, mic) gaming headset worth it when compared to a bluetooth for MW2 gaming. | I recently purchased [Sony Bluetooth Headset](http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/Accessories/SCPH-98095) as I usually play video games sitting a good 13 feet from my tv and wireless was a necessity.
Within 3 days, I regretted my purchase because I found that MW2 was much better played about 5 feet from my tv and a wired solution would have worked just fine.
I'm debating reselling my bluetooth if i can and getting something like: [this](http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efp21/home.aspx)
My question for all youse guys is this: Is a wired headset ( with a left speaker, right speaker, and microphone ) worth it? Does it make hearing an enemy's footsteps or orientation THAT much easier ( I do not have surround sound on for my tv ).
I also plan on playing MAG in a few weeks.
Thanks for your help. | 4 | [
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"body": "I have the turtle beach headset for 360 and play a ton of Modern Warfare 2 with them. They're so awesome. Not really for the enemy footsteps but just for the sound of your own gun and all the ingame noises. I seriously couldn't imagine playing without it now.",
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I have decided to name my first son Bernouilli, and my wife has agreed. Are we crazy? | We plan on calling him 'Li' (Lee) in public.
Is this a cool name? Or are we just really really big nerds?
I have tried using google but can NOT find any instances of this as a first name. | 5 | [
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"body": "Make it a middle name, man. A child is not a novelty item. I'm not saying name them john, jack, or bill, but \"Bernoulli\" is just about the worst name going.",
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"body": "you arent crazy, but your kid might not agree.\n\nmy advice, choose another math related name (pascal?) that is easier to spell and pronounce. do you really want to burden your kid by having to explain how to spell or pronounce his name to others almost everyday of his life? \n\nyou could also name him Daniel Bernoulli <last name>. its much better as a middle name than a first name.",
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"body": "Child-naming rules:\n\n1. Don't name your child something that will get him beat up in a schoolyard.\n\n2. Don't name your child after yourself (deep trauma possibilities).\n\n3. Consider naming your child something harmless and contemporary, then let him choose a unique name for himself when he gets older and shows an interest in such things (many cultures let children rename themselves as they approach adulthood).\n\nHere is [a list of popular names (2008)](http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/).\n\nIn a movie called [\"Open Range\"](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316356/), one of the characters doesn't reveal his given name for years, even to his closest friend. Finally he reveals that he was named \"Blubonnet.\" Yes, it's just fiction, but imagine being given a name like that. Now ask yourself -- how can you be sure that an uncommon name won't sound equally ridiculous in ten years?\n",
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"body": "If you feel like displaying your nerdiness to the world, just get a tattoo or something. Don't use your kid to show off the fact you've heard of Bernoulli.",
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"body": "Could be worse. You could have called him naive-strokes.\n\nWhy saddle a child with a name that will be mis-spelled, mis-pronounced and subject him to teasing? Just to show the world how clever you are because you know who Bernoulli was? Hell of a load to put on a kid.\n\nIf you do stick with the name, give the kid self-defense lessons so he can handle the school bullies.\n\n",
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"body": "Ow. Slightly better than calling him Kickmenow I guess.\n\nI'd consider giving him Bernoulli for a middle name, but not a first name.\n",
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"body": "Your kid will get made fun of.\nYour kid will spend his entire life either using a different name or explaining how to spell it (until he can get it legally changed).\n\nUnique names are almost never a good idea.",
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"body": "It's kinda cool. He'll have an awesome name, and you can call him 'Li' or 'Bernie' and if he's all weirded out about having a crazy name, then he can insist on being called one of those.",
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"body": "In the vanishingly small probability of me having children, high on my list are \"Isaac\" for a boy and \"Sophie\" for a girl. Both of these are \"normal\" names, but they still have their mathematical ties.",
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"body": "So you guys pronounce it Ber-Noo-Lee? It's really pronounced Ber-Noo-Wee. You could shorten it to Wii.\n\n",
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"body": ">Is this a cool name? Or are we just really really big nerds?\n\nTo what level of confidence do you want to know the answer to this question?",
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"body": "I suppose by giving your son a name like Bernoulli, you'd want him to go into mathematics. Have you considered that if he indeed does go into math and does some significant work; that his work is doomed to be confused with/overshadowed by the previous Bernoulli?",
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Doing an epic Doctor Who illustration and need some info... | Hey fellows,
I am in the process of one (of many) Doctor Who illustrations and I need a little help compiling some information for it.
Basically, the ideas has the 10th Doctor sitting in the courtyard area of the TARDIS (as seen in the 4th Doctor's Logopolis, I believe) with his head in his hand visibly crying.
He is surrounded by hung portraits of all the companions and even just one-time acquaintances that have died in service to him over the years. He is holding a rose in the other hand and it is hovering over a pile of dead roses and crumbled rose petals to show that he comes here traditionally.
Anyway, what I need is help compiling a list of all those who have died in service of the Doctor. I'd like to stick with mostly the meaningful ones and I know he hasn't had THAT many actual companions kick the bucket.
Adric obviously (he might even get a statue)
That 1st doctor crazy girl that got sucked out of the TARDIS
who else??? | 9 | [
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"body": "I just realized that Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister (yes, I know who you are) would make a good addition.",
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"body": "who got sucked out of the tardis??\n\nPeri would be another big one, unless you believe the valyard that the time lords went back and stopped it....\n\nZoe, Jamie, and Donna were all striped of their memories of ever meeting or traveling with the doctor\n\nTegan was committed to a mental insitute sometime after traveling with the doctor and was made to believe she made him up (from the novels/audio adventures)\n\nThe doctor also Killed Kamelion.\nhere's a quick reference to all of the companions\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/companions/",
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"body": "Katarina is the one who got sucked out. She sacrificed herself to save the others from a psychopath as I recall.",
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"body": "From the description, you might want to tone down the gratuitous rose imagery if you want the pic to maintain any seriousness. It's her name, sure, but the trope is still overplayed. You don't want to border on [Doctor Why](http://community.livejournal.com/doctorwhy/2008/01/01/) territory.\n\nYou could throw in some shadowed background spots for the nebulous time Nine spent in the Time War. Maybe an empty slot for River Song, to be filled in after he gives her his screwdriver?",
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We made it to the finals for community of the year! | [Here](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof2009/comments/aorei/final_round_of_voting_community_of_the_year/) is the link to vote for r/trees to win community of the year.
Some people think we won't win. So what!? We've organized meet ups, movie nights, and given out invaluable advice regarding marijuana and life to hundreds if not thousands. We truly are the community of the year.
Thank you all for being awesome and making all this possible.
Love,
Zig-Zag | 134 | [
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"body": "**[0]** Trees is my community of the year, regardless of the contest. It provides me an enjoyable place where I can share my happiness with the world. \r\n\r\nThis online community is brought to such a personal level that your username, Zig-Zag(reference to the rolling paper I assume) is familiar to me.\r\n\r\nI love you all. *Have fun, get high.*",
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"body": "hell yeah! this is the first subreddit I go to everyday. It has really made the reddit experience much more enjoyable for me since I started coming here",
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"body": "\"Dude, that million dollars is ours!\" \n\n\"There's no cash prize.\"\n\n\"It's just for honour, dude.\"\n\n\"Dude, that honour is ours!\"\n",
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"body": "Even though the subreddit has no chance, it's the people that win. This is the only subreddit I've seen consistently where reddiquette is actually adhered to ....how sad is that. \n\nIf it weren't for marijuana I would have never gotten through engineering school and it's a shame that because of big pharma this medicinal product gets such a bad reputation (while the rest of the country is popping pills)\n\nI'd probably be hanging out at the suicide subreddit if it weren't for my best friend mary. So thank you all for proving you are just as intelligent and much kinder people than all of those who choose to 'look down' upon us.",
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I have Gynophobia, which is the fear of women. AMA. | Here is a link to the wiki proving this a real condition!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynophobia
From: http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/gynophobia.html
> Gynophobia is an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger.
Women pose little or no actual danger? BULLSHIT!!!!!
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"body": "I am really sorry to hear about a person living with such a terrible condition. A father of a friend of mine had this condition, and he could never be near a woman during his whole life. \r\n\r\nHow do you go through your day-to day life with such a fear?",
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"body": "I think you'll find reddit is a very supportive no-woman environment.\n\nYou might also be interested in picking up a paraphilia, might I suggest:\n\n[/r/Whalebait/](/r/whalebait/)",
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How do I stop being self-destructive? | I feel like I'm messing up everything around me, and I'm not sure why. I feel like the solution is simple: "just do it." Yet I'm not. And I'm not sure why if it's all making me so miserable. I'm a freshman in college and I'm not sure how much of this is "well everybody fucks up a little when they are growing up" and how much of this is a serious problem.
* my schoolwork is suffering. I'm not motivated enough to go to class or study material every day. I like school and I like learning and I can't figure out why I can't make myself go to class. I put off schoolwork and then do a sloppy job because I'm in a rush to finish.
* my depression and anxiety are pretty bad, although not the worst they've ever been. But I find myself hating myself and the things I do constantly. I have awful self esteem and I always have and I'm not sure what to do about this either. My doctor increased my medications and I'm a bit better but the problem is still there.
* I'm completely unhappy with my body. I'm not in shape and due to health problems, exercising is really painful, although I can go, but it certainly doesn't help to motivate myself to go to the gym to look better when I know I'm going to be in a lot of pain for a few days.
* I've had a string of bad relationships and I'm not sure what to do about that either. I often feel like I am constantly being put down, and I know that I tend to date people who do this. At this point, I've just decided I can't involve anyone else in my shit show so I need to stay away from dating people for a while, although I would eventually like to have a healthy relationship.
* I'm very unorganized and I can't seem to do simple things like manage money, allot time to spend on hobbies, get all of the things done I say I'm going to do, and manage my time. I often get nothing done because I feel overwhelmed with all of the things I need to do and start a negative thought spiral of having to do things --> feeling overwhelmed --> feeling like I can't handle anything ---> hating myself --> having a depressive episode and not getting anything done ---> having to do more things, rinse, repeat.
I'm really not sure what to do. I'm pretty sure that not everyone does this their freshman year. I know I need to see a therapist. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I want to stop so I can just stop hating myself all the time. I feel like I'm constantly destroying friendships and relationships because of these negative patterns in my life and I want to stop annoying the shit out of people I love and making people sick of me.
What do I do reddit? Feel free to call me a stupid brat. | 6 | [
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"body": "All I can say is that you're on the right track in that you recognise your problems. \r\n\r\nMaybe go and see your GP too, I think depression could be the main problem here.",
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How can I learn to use Illustrator better? | I can't use Illustrator, but I have a yearning to understand it.
I'm having trouble drawing what I want to draw with the pen tool, I know how to draw (and have a sketch of what I want to draw) but I can't make it happen. On top of that, just getting the hang of Illustrator is hard for me. If it helps I mainly do silkscreening, and I don't even know how to do something that seems simple, like separate the colors of a vector into multiple layers to be printed or altered.
Could anyone share advice on using Illustrator or guides to help me learn.
(I'm using Adobe CS4 and I have a Wacom Intous 4 large pen tablet.) | 5 | [
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"body": "My guess is that learning Illustrator is much like learning Photoshop: a certain minimum amount of screaming and cursing and pulling your hair out by the roots is required of almost everyone.",
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"body": "If you don't understand bezier curves you're going to have a bad time.\r\n\r\nCheck out different videos like this:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umoK473vTAY\r\n",
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How to get into the medical marijuana business? | What steps must one take to become a licensed marijuana grower? Can one grow and also run a dispensary? All information is greatly appreciated. | 4 | [
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"body": "First off, IANAL. However, I do feel like I have a pretty good understanding of how things are working. Depending on what state you live in you may be able to become a patient-cultivator. I know that in California patient-cultivators, commonly called vendors, operate under the radar for the most part. The way the law works in California is that collectives must keep their facility a \"closed loop\" when it comes to the weed they provide. That means that they must only distribute medicine grown by members of the collective. As for patients, we are only allowed to possess as much as our doctor says we need. The standard baseline is a 1/2 lb. of dry plant material and 6 mature cannabis plants or 12 immature cannabis plants. These limits set in SB 420 were recently ruled unconstitutional, but you can bet your ass the cops are still pretending they are valid. Anyway, once you grow your herb, if you have more than you need, legally you're obligated to get rid of it. So, since collectives have a need to get weed from their patients and patients have a need to get rid of their excess harvest you can see how things work out.\n\nNow, you're not allowed to do this in a manner that could be construed as \"for profit,\" but the law and precedent do specifically allow for patient-cultivators to be compensated for their materials, time, and effort. This is useful because it allows people who are disabled to feed themselves and medicate themselves -- something they may not be able to do otherwise.\n\nThis may sound crazy, but in CA, it really is a simple as:\n\n1) Get MMJ Recommendation\n2) Grow Kind Herb\n3) Join a Collective\n4) Unload excess harvest to said Collective\n\nAlways remember that selling herb is illegal federally, and while Obama has decided not to prosecute patients in compliance with state law, he or his successor could change the policy at any time.",
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"body": "I did some research for canada but you basically have to find someone who has their medical card and then have them choose you as their supplier.",
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Which brand of goggles do you use/would suggest buying? | I'm in the market for some new snowboard goggles and just need some opinions. What type of goggles do you guys use and which ones would you suggest? For the past 9 years I never really used goggles so I am pretty lost. My only concern is that they be fog proof. Try to keep the prices under $100, but don't let this limit your suggestions though. | 4 | [
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"body": "A-Frames. Still rockin the classic. \nedit: they NEVER fog up on me, and I've bought and sold a few pairs/lens combos. The Wisdoms are good too but they didn't fit my face very well.",
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Do any other male redditors have trouble climaxing during sex? | I have noticed this, jacking off its no problem but when i get to real sex the pressure i guess keeps my mind to occupied to orgasm. no problems maintaining erection though. Have any of you guys overcome this problem and have tips?
EDIT: Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I've found that the main reason for all of it is psychological so I am going to work o getting into a happy place in my head. | 9 | [
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"body": "I'm led to believe it's more common than you might think.\n\nTips are:\n - consider your protection. Condoms give less sensation, you might notice a huge difference without/if your partner went on BC.\n - read up on death gripping, and how to stop it. Sensations between masturbation and sex/oral sex are very different, if you're tugging away at it like there's no tomorrow, then that's what your body will be used to. Learning to cum through a 'gentler touch' will help.\n - Going a few days without masturbating before you have sex with your girl.\n - Not obsessing over the orgasm. Enjoy the sensation of sex without putting all your effort into the final product.\n",
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Ask /r/android: So I just got a Google Voice account, what is the cheapest Android phone I can get with a T-mobile data-only plan? | ....or any other data only plan.
EDIT: I guess my real question should be -- What is the cheapest android phone I can buy without contract? | 11 | [
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"body": "Fring is a bit buggy, not sure if you want to rely on that. From my experience, using data to get calls is not a good idea. On CDMA/Verizon, if the 3G signal drops to 1X (equivalent of EDGE), then the internet is disconnected for a good 10 seconds.\n\nAnd yes, Voice isn't VoIP and Skype sucks.",
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"body": "You'll also need a VOIP pipe, and the only one Google Voice directly supports is Gizmo5 - which is not accepting new users until they're done with being reworked after being bought by Google. I already had a G5 account from years ago, but it didn't have a call-in number, so I couldn't get it hooked seamlessly to GV - my outgoing calls showed up as some weird-ass number with a callerID of \"Gizmo User\".\n\nIn addition, I've found that VOIP really only works if you're in wireless. 3G is just sluggish.\n\nI was all excited about this prospect when I got my unlocked Nexus One, but a few days of fiddling convinced me that it's just not there yet, and I reluctantly went out and got a plan with voice and data. No text messages, though; at least GV can save me from *that* particular bit of overpriced data.\n\nI'll give it another go once Gizmo5 is reborn as Google Speech or whatever they decide to call it.",
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How do I stop being so self-destructive? (repost from askreddit) | I feel like I'm messing up everything around me, and I'm not sure why. I feel like the solution is simple: "just do it." Yet I'm not. And I'm not sure why if it's all making me so miserable. I'm a freshman in college and I'm not sure how much of this is "well everybody fucks up a little when they are growing up" and how much of this is a serious problem.
* my schoolwork is suffering. I'm not motivated enough to go to class or study material every day. I like school and I like learning and I can't figure out why I can't make myself go to class. I put off schoolwork and then do a sloppy job because I'm in a rush to finish.
* my depression and anxiety are pretty bad, although not the worst they've ever been. But I find myself hating myself and the things I do constantly. I have awful self esteem and I always have and I'm not sure what to do about this either. My doctor increased my medications and I'm a bit better but the problem is still there.
* I'm completely unhappy with my body. I'm not in shape and due to health problems, exercising is really painful, although I can go, but it certainly doesn't help to motivate myself to go to the gym to look better when I know I'm going to be in a lot of pain for a few days.
* I've had a string of bad relationships and I'm not sure what to do about that either. I often feel like I am constantly being put down, and I know that I tend to date people who do this. At this point, I've just decided I can't involve anyone else in my shit show so I need to stay away from dating people for a while, although I would eventually like to have a healthy relationship.
* I'm very unorganized and I can't seem to do simple things like manage money, allot time to spend on hobbies, get all of the things done I say I'm going to do, and manage my time. I often get nothing done because I feel overwhelmed with all of the things I need to do and start a negative thought spiral of having to do things --> feeling overwhelmed --> feeling like I can't handle anything ---> hating myself --> having a depressive episode and not getting anything done ---> having to do more things, rinse, repeat.
I'm really not sure what to do. I'm pretty sure that not everyone does this their freshman year. I know I need to see a therapist. I don't know why I'm doing this, but I want to stop so I can just stop hating myself all the time. I feel like I'm constantly destroying friendships and relationships because of these negative patterns in my life and I want to stop annoying the shit out of people I love and making people sick of me.
What do I do reddit? Feel free to call me a stupid brat. | 15 | [
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"body": "I am not sure how much help i can be. I can relate to the first four points though, so i will offer my advice in anyway i can. \nPoint 1: It can be REALLY hard to motivate yourself for school work when you are feeling depressed, but by ignoring your work you will just end up regretting it and falling into a downward spiral. If you can improve ONE thing about your life, make sure it is your school work. This sounds cliché and is certainly over said but at your age that is exactly what you should be concentrating on. If it is hard to motivate yourself...just remember \"You HAVE to do it.\" This sounds pressurising but without it you won't bother right?\n\nI would carry on, but i'm not sure if i'm helping or not and generally i make stuff worse so i think i'll leave it for now. Hope i helped at least a tad. If not i hope i didn't make things worse.",
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"body": "Most universities have a student counseling service. That's your best bet. Some are even free of charge. Look into this.\n\n**If you're smart enough to notice a pattern, you are smart enough to stop it.** Think things through. Fight back. Tell yourself you are badass. Only a badass could handle depression and beat it, so be one. You are capable of whatever you need to achieve. If you feel like hating yourself, physically shake your head as hard as you can until you can laugh at the idea. Mentally scream \"NO\" as loud as you can to whatever voice is telling you you aren't worth it. Reject any thought that isn't helping you progress forward. Tell yourself you won't accept it anymore. Fight back.\n\nFocus on yourself for now. Get to a counseling service. Try to focus on your classes. **Forget about girls.** If you are unhappy with how you look but can't handle working out right now; make an effort to eat healthier. Alternatively you can try swimming/other non-stressful exercises. There may be seminars on how to manage your time at school. If not, try to just take small simple steps. Create a system. Set-up a calendar and set out exactly when you will work on homework. \n\nThe best thing you can do for yourself is get a therapist. There are people all around whose job it is to help out people exactly in your position. Take advantage of that opportunity.\n",
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"body": "I've read your comments in the other thread, where you say you've been seeing a psychiatrist but need to find someone new now that you've moved. When you were doing therapy, how much did it help? Did you feel in control of the treatment? Was it going in the direction that you felt you needed? These are things to consider when you look for a someone new to see, I believe. \n\nSo what *I* see in your post is a person who has a deep and basic dislike of themselves. How far into that core issue have you been able to go? The things you describe look like an entire catalogue of problems, but really boil down to the same thing. Unfortunately, they are feeding your low opinion of yourself and making everything unpleasantly circular. You know, a lot of those things don't necessarily *need* to be directly addressed - once you find a way to like yourself better, and your mood lifts, they have a habit of fixing themselves. And if you would like to do it, I'd like to hear some things about you to balance the equation. What do you like? What will you major in at college? What interests you? ",
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My sandwich and my thoughts | So last night I decided to blaze up and to my surprise I was stricken with the urge to make a big-ass sandwich. It was weird. Anyway, I go to my kitchen, and start gathering ingredients. Put the bread in the toaster; everything was looking good. Then I remembered that I hadn't gotten the lettuce out. Well, I stood in front of the open refrigerator and thought "Well, to get to the lettuce I'm going to have to open this drawer, then unwrap the plastic bag, wash the leaves…" And I made the decision not to include the lettuce, because I didn't want to wake anyone up making that noise.
Now, this is one of the moments when you realize you've just had a really "high" thought. Because what I realized was was that my thought process in this situation boiled down to "lettuce is too loud." And when you say it like that you sound like a fucking crazy person!
Anyway, thought I'd share this fun little story with you. Cheers, /trees | 10 | [
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"body": "I'm a 25 year old man, and when I was stoned at home for the holidays, my munchie adventure from room to kitchen, was planned out like a Navy Seal insertion,",
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Futurama Posters [2027x2880~5000x7060] | * [One.](http://imgur.com/xdtso.png)
* [Two.](http://imgur.com/PZ8fu.png)
* [Three.](http://imgur.com/mqWhe.png)
* [Four.](http://imgur.com/927ly.png)
* [Five.](http://imgur.com/rlkb6.png)
* [Six.](http://imgur.com/Qu8Pu.png)
* [Seven.](http://imgur.com/oqsC2.png)
* [Eight.](http://imgur.com/ABpee.png)
* [Nine.](http://imgur.com/YEm13.png) | 33 | [
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"body": "These look like they were done in a vector format. If they were, any chance of releasing them in SVG or AI files?\n\nOh yeah, have an upvote.",
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What is a good shotgun for home defense? | I'm just looking around and I don't know too much about shotguns, looking for a nice shotgun to keep in my house for defense, nothing too expensive ~$500. | 18 | [
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"body": "mossberg 500 is great too , if you do a quick search within this subreddit about home defense shotguns you could read about different owner's perspectives of what they like. ",
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"body": "[Benelli M4](http://www.benelliusa.com/shotguns/benelli_m4.php). Good for the Marines, good for you.\n\nEdit: I realized you didn't want to spend more than $500. The M4 is a lot more expensive. Fuggetaboutit.",
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"body": "Mossberg 500 -- I got the [Mariner](http://www.eastcoastfirearms.com/sub/page.asp?page_id=48)\r\n\r\n\r\nWould recommend something short. Grandpa's 100 year old shotgun with a 9 ft. barrel is kinda hard to swing around narrow hallways and doorways. \r\n\r\n\r\nSolid little shotgun but word of warning. I had to improvise a pad for the pistol grip out of one of those squishy mouse pads. That thing can bite hard after a couple of dozen rounds at the range. Good thing most home-defense situations likely won't need a couple dozen rounds. Your hand wouldn't survive <grin>. ",
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"body": "I have always been partial to the Mossberg. I have a 590 Mariner and prefer it to the Remington for one main reason, the safety. The Mossberg safety is right on top and it it instantly obvious if it is engaged or not. It is also easier for me to operate without moving my hand away from the shooting grip. ",
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"body": "Another option is a [Saiga-12](http://www.gilbertsguns.com/Shotguns/Saiga/Saiga+12+Gauge+19+Barrel+Shotgun+IZ-109), which has the advantage of being semi-automatic. They are illegal in a lot of states, though.",
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"body": "Everyone talks about the Remington 870 so much that it makes me want to get one. I have a Mossberg Maverick 88, however, and the only thing I don't like about it is that it's not the simplest gun to field strip. I got mine for $180 new, though. It's my squirrel gun.",
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"body": "I purchased a Mossberg 500 12 gauge with a thumb-hole stock. Paid $300 I think at a gun show about a year ago. I like it but it is difficult for my wife to handle indoors. We are considering a handgun so she has an option, but I still think if the zombie apocalypse comes, she will stick me with the 9 and take the shotgun for herself. ",
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"body": "Nothing is more fun than a shotgun :)\r\n\r\nMore people respect a shotgun when on the receiving end of one.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n",
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"body": "I own a Benelli M4 civi and a S.P.A.S. 12. I love both but for on the cheap the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 are two you cannot go wrong with. ",
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"body": "I picked up a Mossberg 500 Security/Field combo. It was a little hard to track down in my area, but it was exactly what I was looking for.\n\nIt comes with 28\" and 18.5\" barrels - full stock and pistol grip - synthetic. It's a really nice combo. Gives you the HD weapon, but also can be changed to go out.\n\nPlus price was nice. < $400",
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Reddit, I want to start dressing like a NASA engineer from the 1960's but I'm afraid people will think I'm Mormon. Any advice? | I'm going for [this look](http://imgur.com/abk7p.jpg). I don't wear glasses but I do smoke and Mormons don't smoke so that could help. Any other ideas? | 13 | [
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"body": "You mean you want to wear a dark suit and a white shirt with a tie. That's what a lot of people do. Like in Madmen.",
"score": 4
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"body": "You have to wear a short-sleeve button down shirt to do this.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KranzConsole.jpg\n\nPeople may just think you are channeling Wallie from Dilbert if you are not careful.\n\nLooking steely-eyed and/or carrying around a piece of hose duct-taped to a box with you might help.\n\nhttp://vectors.usc.edu/thoughtmesh/publish/uploaded/uploaded_200/apollo_13_duct_tape_ill.jpg\n\n",
"score": 4
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"body": "No cotton shirts. They have to shine so much all will immediately know they are made from petroleum. \n\nNarrow ties. Even with short sleeve shirts. \n\nWhen casual you must have some Shirt Jacs (search - Polyester Shirt Jac Retro). \n\nThe hardest part for you do will probably be wearing the black dress socks and shoes with shorts. \n\nIf possible wear a slide rule tie clip. Functional.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Get a huge, don't mess with Texas style belt buckle inscribed with a pentagram and the 9th invocation of the pit.\n\nDon't do up your tie properly. \n\nGet your suit tailored. \n\nWear scandalous facial hair.\n\nAssociate with homosexuals. \n\nDrink Coke. ",
"score": 3
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Okay "Reddit is Fun," w-t-f | This app used to be pretty damn good. What the fuck happened? Shit never loads, that cache feature serves no ostensible purpose other than to force close the program and it's constantly crashing on me.
Am I alone in this? I don't mean to be a dick to freeware developers, but damn. Is there another option thats worthwhile?
EDIT: wow, thanks for your replies. Even the developer dropped by, and now I look douchy. All upvote talklittle, liberator of Droid-using Redditos everywhere! | 13 | [
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"body": "Weird. Thanks for feedback I'll look into it. I probably have to disable caching when phones have low space.",
"score": 5
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After reading a "christian book" called "The Shack" I began to read reviews on the book by Christians...WTF? | At the request of a Christian friend of mine I read a book called "The Shack". It is the story of a father dealing with the abduction and subsequent murder of his five year old Daughter. He then spends a night with The father the son and the holy spirit and learns about God. I'm a non believer but did feel that philosophically this book put out version of Christianity that was theoretically pretty good. I plan on writing back to the person that wanted me to read it and explain about how this is just a mans made up version of what he wants Christianity to be but that the concept of Jesus comes solely from the Gospels so you can't just pretend everything else in the Gospels doesn't exist. After looking at a few things on the Internet I came across "The Heresies of the Shack" [Here](http://worththewaitblog.wordpress.com/2008/09/06/thirteen-heresies-in-the-shack-by-dr-michael-youssef/) which I found to basically back up what I was saying even though I don't believe any of this to be true. Then I came across Christian reviews of the book on a Christian book site [here](http://www.christianbook.com/shack-william-young/9780964729230/pd/729230?show_all_cr=1&event=PPCSRC#customer_reviews) and was completely blown away. I was first taken aback by the fact that it only got 3 of 5 stars. I was assuming that it would get 5 or 5. Then I started to read the bad reviews and realized how absolutely bat shit these people are. Please take a second and read some of these reviews. It is incredible. | 3 | [
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"body": "I think this is easily explained by the observation that while Christians **say** they follow a common religion, they really don't. Note that some of the Christians love the book, while others think it is heretical.\n\nThe lack of reliable, objective standards means that religious \"debate\" among theists is really a mass dick-waving over who has the coolest imagination.",
"score": 7
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"body": "THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A 0 STAR REVIEW...SHE WAS ORIGINALLY PROTECTED FROM READING IT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.\n\nPlease don't read it! Please leave it alone! Even though this book came highly recommended by various Christian women, I could not read it after purchasing it. It sat on my book shelf over six months. Finally, my ladies Bible study group decided to study it, so I finally read it, too. I cried while reading it for the innumerous people who are going to be lead astray by this book. I know the Holy Spirit was protecting me and keeping me from reading it during the time I couldn't pick it up because it is so inaccurate blasphemous. I have to compare it to the coming desecration of the Jewish Temple when the Anti-Christ rides on pig in the Temple. This book is desecrating to God, to Jesus, and to the Holy Spirit. To depict the Holy Trinity as Mr. Young has done is unspeakable. I stayed in the Bible study group even though it hurt to do so and I believe that God used me and some other women to \"test\" the theology that Mr. Young tried to put over on the readers. Thankfully, the women agreed that this book is not doctrinally sound and put it down. I, personally, burned my copy and strongly encourage others to do the same. This book is heresy and blasphemy to our God, to our savior, Jesus, and to the Holy Spirit who lives in us after we are saved. People, do not believe what others tell you about God or about Jesus. Go to the one source we have that is totally and completely accurate, the Holy Bible. Study your Bible carefully and compare anything and everything to it so that you may know without a doubt that whatever you are hearing and reading is in line with God's truth(s). Protect your souls, people! Protect your precious souls!",
"score": 6
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So I was driving behind this guy yesterday when a McDonalds cup was flung from his window nearly hitting my car. I was momentarily blinded by rage as I usually am when I see a litterbug in action. I slammed on the gas and tailgated the guy for a block, and then let him go. | I immediately ran through several scenarios of how to handle this. Take down the guys license plate number and report him to the authorities (would anything actually be done?), drive up next to him and confront him (possible leading to an altercation?), follow him and burn down his house (worse for the environment than littering, also worse than littering), or should I just stop and pick up the trash? Ive been in this position several times and I never can seem to come up with a good response, but seeing people litter infuriates me for a litany of reasons. I know retaliation wont stop someone from littering, but it seems nearly impossible to engage a littering motorist in a productive dialogue about littering. So what does Reddit do when confronted with this scenario? Do any of you guys have any ideas/stories about dealing with similar situations? Youre input would be greatly appreciated. | 3 | [
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"body": "Over and over again, I found myself angry at folks who don't clean up after their dogs at the dog park. Speaking to them has no effect, other than 'fuck you'. Why are people so nasty?\n\nThen one day, I was cleaning up after my dog, and started picking up random poop on my way to the trash. Before long, I had cleaned up the entire park! What I didn't expect was that after that, it no longer bothered me. No idea why, but there ya go.\n\nSo, what I'm saying is, next time someone throws litter from their car, you should go to the local dog park, and clean up dog poop. ;-)",
"score": 3
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"body": "If you can pick up the trash and then follow the person (or just keep a piece of garbage in your car for these occasions), keep a distance, try to be inconspicuous. Let the person park, and go wherever they are going. Then get out and quickly superglue the garbage to the windshield, along with a note that has to be read from the inside of the car. Let them know why they got garbage glued. ",
"score": 3
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What's the most abusive and hilarious insult you can think of with NO swearing? | I am adapting Monty Python's "the argument clinic" sketch to use in an English class with Spanish teenagers. They will be acting out the sketch for parents. I have to be careful about teaching them bad language (my boss says "tit" "git" and "pervert" are out) but I still want the sketch to be funny. The lines have to be fun to say. Can you think of some good insults I can use?
These are the lines as they are...
DON'T GIVE ME THAT, YOU SNOTTY-FACED EVIL PAN OF DROPPINGS!
SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS STUFFY-NOSED MALODOROUS PERVERT!!!
STUPID GIT
what the best line you've got and have you ever used it in real life? | 64 | [
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"body": "Not my insult but a famous Winston Churchill retort. \n\nLady Astor to Churchill \"Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison\" \nChurchill: \"Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it\"",
"score": 42
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"body": "I told a girl to \"go have a baby or something\" and she stormed out of the room. (Felt really bad about it.)\n\nMore towards your examples, I like the Frenchmen insults in Holy Grail. \"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.\"",
"score": 25
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"body": "\"I hope your mother dies having my abortion.\"\r\n\r\nNot mine, but by some other redditor. I think it was from that insults thread.",
"score": 20
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"body": "\"You'll be a horrible mother.\" To be used ONLY against evil small girls, that means all small girls.",
"score": 11
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"body": "May your armpits be infested with the fleas of a thousand camals.\r\n\r\nThere are three chinese curses that are to be listed in increasing severity:\r\n\r\nMay you live in interesting times\r\n\r\nMay you come to the attention of those in authority\r\n\r\nAnd\r\n\r\nMay you find what you're looking for.\r\n\r\n\r\n",
"score": 10
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"body": "Dear Darla, I hate your stinking guts. You make me vomit. You're scum between my toes! Love, Alfalfa.",
"score": 6
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"body": "\"You are not smart.\"\n\nseriously though, how do you respond to that? What proof could you possibly provide that would prove you are indeed smart. NONE!",
"score": 4
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"body": "I once told someone, in a fit of pique, that I hoped he was anally raped by a rabid hippo. His shocked laughter did nothing to soothe my ire....",
"score": 3
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"body": "This won't be too much help for your class, but : [The Shakespeare Insult Generator](http://www.pangloss.com/seidel/Shaker/index.html)",
"score": 3
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"body": "Nobody loves you. Don't deny it. You know it's true. That's why you're so angry and depressed, because nobody loves you. You've been rejected all your life, and you're taking it out on everyone around you. Don't blame me for your lack of love. Your whole personality stinks.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I was having a friendly insult-off with some people I know and I told the girl \n\n\"You just LOOK barren.\"\n\nIn retrospect, that was pretty solid.",
"score": 3
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In 1998 I met some of the members of GWAR; I asked them to sign this. | [The Picture](http://imgur.com/VcB1R.jpg). The full version of the story is that there was another student in my law school who got SCOTUS justice Sandra Day O'Connor to sign her copy of the tax code and then paraded around shoving it in everyone's faces like a complete twat. A week later I took my book to a tiny little indie record store to have GWAR sign it so I could take the piss out of my classmate. It is actually one of the coolest pieces of rock memorabilia that I have. =) | 38 | [
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"body": "That is the best use of a legal text I have ever seen. Glad to hear there was a revenge story behind it",
"score": 13
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What is the funniest accident that has happened to you? | Anything at all, from laughing so hard that you spit milk out your nose spraying all over your friends face to haveing 2 pigeons take a shit right in the middle your sundae right as you take a bite, i want to know your stories! | 5 | [
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"body": "When I was 5, I sat on my mom's very fat friend's lap as we went down a slide, and she fell on top of me and broke my leg.",
"score": 5
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"body": "About two years ago, I decided to purchase a set of Roman gladii to add to my collection of weaponry. The day they came in the mail (I was home from school at the time), my mom woke me up and asked me out of curiosity what I had ordered. I told her it was a surprise. Anyway, I tore open the box and saw the glory that was my (very real and very dangerous) new toy. I put the swords in their sheaths and put it on my back. Because I had just gotten out of bed, I was still in my underwear and now wearing a pair of extremely deadly swords on my back. I felt powerful! I wanted to rampage, like all the glorious Romans I had read about, slicing through waves and waves of my enemies, only stopping to remove my sword from their respective jugulars. As I was imagining this in my head, I pulled out one of the swords and started waving it around like a true warrior. I was good. Really good. I knew that if I needed to, I could cut a man down in under a second. Then, as the adrenaline was pumping, I removed the other sword from its sheath. Now, with a sword in each hand and clad only in my underwear, I was master of the art. But then it happened. As it turns out, wielding two swords requires a lot more skill than I had previously assumed. I tried to move the sword in my left hand and it didn't feel right. I looked down and saw the blade was already four inches deep into my left thigh. I always thought getting stabbed would hurt but I knew my body was in shock already. I removed the blade immediately and was afraid to look at the wound. Then came the cool feeling of wind against my skin. I decided to take a glance at my injury and saw only bone and blood. Yes, that's right, my femur was exposed. There I was, a twenty-year-old man in my underwear that just stabbed himself while acting like a child. I knew why parents would never let their kids buy swords. I started laughing hysterically and, somehow, the massive amount of bleeding stopped. Since my mom had just left for work, I called my friend and asked him to take my to the hospital. On the way there, I stopped where my other friend worked so I could show him. I wound up getting sixteen stitches, eight inside and eight on the outside. I left the dried blood on the sword so I could show everyone. I'll post the scar if anyone cares haha.\n\ntl;dr - I stabbed myself with a sword while in my underwear and had to get sixteen stitches. I was twenty years old.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Funny sleep walking story.\n\nWhen I was about 7 my brother and I shared a set of bunk beds. He slept on the top bunk and I was down below. Well one night at about 12 in the morning I wake up to see him climbing down from the top bunk, walk over to the foot of my bed, pull down his pants and piss on the end of my bed. I was shouting \"DAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!\" over and over, but he wouldn't stop! I was getting mad, but still half asleep so I didn't get up. He finally finished, pulled up his pants, climbed back up to his bed and slept the rest of the night. He remembers absolutely nothing about it. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I got super drunk once and was fake karate fighting a friend in the backyard, when all of the sudden this house comes out of nowhere and smacks me in the face. \nI had shingle-siding-shaped marks on my face for like a week.",
"score": 3
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Having trouble getting myself to donate blood | I've donated blood twice in my life, the last time was almost 2 years ago and I can't make myself do it again because I felt so terrible during donation and right afterward. I almost passed out during and I had to hang around for about a half hour before I felt like I could walk. Does anyone have any tips to make the experience more bearable? I want to do it because I know it saves lives, but I keep chickening out at the thought of feeling like I did the last time.
Help!
Edit: Thanks for all the advice! I do drink water before donating, but maybe not quite enough. I really do need to try again but I need to wait for a day when I feel really good to start with, chug water all day and then walk into the red cross. | 3 | [
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"body": "Check out the web site for your local donation agency for tips; they usually include something like get plenty of rest the night before, and eat a hearty, low-fat meal before donating.\n\nBut I suspect that your reaction was due to shock, rather than losing a pint or two of blood. I've never reacted the way you have to donating, but I did have that reaction when I got pierced long ago. It was my own fault; I got overexcited about the potential pain that was about to be inflicted, that my heart rate, breathing rate and blood pressure rose. Then, once the deed was done, my system went haywire and I was useless for about 30 minutes.\n\nYou should only do it if you can relax yourself, otherwise you'll probably have the same experience as you did last time. Bring a book or magazine. Flirt with the nurses. Whatever it takes.\n\nOr, you could find some other way to be altruistic.",
"score": 3
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"body": "I find that if I don't drink lots and lots of water before I donate, I feel like crap afterwards (very woozy and feverish). My advice would be to make sure you hydrate really well before and after.",
"score": 3
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We're using Linux at work - I want to learn and understand it! What are the best resources? | Until now, Linux has kind of been my booty-call OS; I'd only mess around with it when I had the time/interest and afterwards be back in windows.
We're starting to use Linux at work for some embedded development and I'd really like to get the most out of it and add this to my list of skills. This past week I put gentoo on a spare computer at home (successfully, i might add!), and have been browsing "The Embedded Linux Primer" by Chris Hallinan. It's pretty decent! I see a real need for understanding the kernel (patching, configuring, compiling) and device drivers, so I want to get comfortable in the linux environment and start to chip away at these topics. What resources (books, websites, forums) are particularly good and which skills do you think I should bone up on? I know some C and a little bit of C++.
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"body": "What do you do for a living? Are you wanting to use it as a development platform, a desktop, are you going to be supporting linux servers? I mean, you can use Windows without knowing every little aspect of it, right?\n\nI think suggestions will vary depending on that info. \n\nI don't have a good resource other than man pages, but learning shell commands will be useful no matter what you're doing. Just today I needed to turn a fairly complicated conf file into a CSV containing two pieces of info for each line containing certain data. In one line that took me about 60 seconds to figure out, I passed it through grep, cut, and sed and had the file I needed. Being able to do something like that quickly is invaluable, and just takes working in the environment for a while.\n\nSomeone else might have a good resource or reference for shell commands.\n\nEDIT: Hey, just noticed [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs) linked on the right. That might be a good place too.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I guess I'll go first: I've found lwn.net and, through it, pdfs of \"Linux Device Drivers: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/\n\nFor now, I think that this is too low-level. I would appreciate recommendations for good intro material.",
"score": 3
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HELP! I'm losing the love I once had with my iPhone ... what are some ways I can spice up the relationship again? | For a while I was enamored with the iPhone 3GS as is: Maps, App Store, Safari, Mail, and the Camera were all immensely satisfying. Then I got bored.
So I jailbroke. GV Mobile, SBSettings, and a handful of other apps made routine tasks much slicker and easier to perform. After a few months, I am bored yet again. I pretty much only use GV Mobile, Safari, SBSettings, Mail, and Maps on a daily basis. The rest of my iPhone's functionality is sitting idly by because I can't think of anything new, cool, and useful to do with it (probably messing around with BTStack tonight, but it's not useful to me, just a fun diversion). So I ask you, /r/iphone:
**What non-default applications do you use on a daily basis?**
**What amazing things are you doing with your iPhone that would boggle the mind of an average user?** | 19 | [
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"body": "I once thought my relationship with my iPhone was losing it's spark.\n\nThen I realized that it does everything that I need/want. She is so integrated into my routine that I don't have to think about my iPhone as a device I just use it as an assistant.\n\n> What amazing things are you doing with your iPhone that would boggle the mind of an average user?\n\nShe keeps track of my calendars, mail, and contacts. She tells me about my stocks and the weather. She plays me beautiful music. We read books and have spent time adventuring on Safari. She remembers my passwords and takes notes. She listens to me rambling and can even repeat back to me what I have said.\n\nMy relationship with Stacey would boggle the minds of most people. I would be lost without her. We may be comfortable but can see our relationship maturing.",
"score": 16
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"body": "Have you tried Snappy? Click both volume buttons and take a picture. No waiting, no switching apps. It's very slick.\n\nThe Emf meter applications are cool. You can find metal under surfaces or wires in a wall using the magnetometer.\n\nSignalScope pro and Spectrowalls are fantastic for engaging with the sounds around you. The characteristic pitch of a bus speeding up shows as three distinct bright spots moving up. Doppler shifts are visually appealing too.\n\nThe iPhone camera is fairly sensitive to ir. Get a piece of unexposed, developed slide film and put it over the camera, then take eerie ir photos of plants that look like puffs of snow.",
"score": 6
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"body": "I put Stanza on my iPhone months ago, but only recently realized its potential. I found out that I can take most any file off my computer, sync it with Stanza, read it whenever. After fiddling with the settings, I found the font, background and font color (black and white, respectively), etc. that works for me. And sliding your thumb up and down will adjust the brightness level--simple but genius!\n\nThe free (basically non-copyrighted works, namely classics) books you can read is more than you can read in your lifetime. And that's all *free*. And just for kicks I...came across a PDF of *all nine* (or a least, the first nine) Wheel of Time books. I haven't read them but have no desire to shell out cash for each one. I did my syncing magic and voila! I have *all nine* Wheel of Time books on my iPhone. I don't know if I'll actually read them with that, but it's fun to see what's possible. Until an e-ink book reader gets in my price range, the iPhone isn't a bad alternative.",
"score": 6
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"body": "**iReddit** (obvious), **FaceBook**, **NAVIGON**, **Cycorder**, shortcut to **Google Talk** app (bookmark to desktop works just like an app), **IMDb** (uses location to pull up movie show times), **Urbanspoon** (don't know what to eat? Got a price range and an idea? It will tell you based on what's around), **Cardstar** (manages all your shopping rewards cards), **Google Earth**, **Google Mobile App**. I also like **Intelliscreen** that shows all sorts of important info (weather, date, calendar events, new emails/sms/missed calls/voicemail) on the lock screen rather than just date/time battery...\n\n**Backgrounder** + **ProSwitcher** for Palm Pre-like app switching. **Winterboard** to manage themes. You already got SBSettings-- did you get the rotation inhibitor toggle? Tethering toggle? Did you download **Safari Download Plug-in**?",
"score": 6
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"body": "Some great recommendations here.\n\nIf you are looking for any games, some good ones are:\n\nWordsWithFriends and/or Scrabble (I like them both even though they are nearly the same)\n\nPhase10\n\nAuditorium\n\nSentinel 1 and 2\n\nPocket God\n\nSpaceStation\n\nCartoonWars\n\nCartoonWars Gunner\n\nRunway\n\nScramble\n\n\nRamp Champ\n\n\nThe Impossible Quiz\n\n\nMoron Test\n\n\n\nBrick 3D\n\nSNES / NES / GBA Emulators\n\n______________________________________\n\n\nOther apps I use that keep me going with my love:\n\n\nAirMouse (remote mouse/keyboard for your computer.. works *extremely* well, especially after the last update)\n\nBebot\n\nSpawn\n\nGuitarJam\n\nTED\n\nvlc4iphone\n\n\nCamera Zoom\n\nCameraFD\n\nimgur mobile\n\nReadR 2",
"score": 5
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"body": "Make it a nice romantic meal, rub its back, and settle down for some 1 on 1 time, give it a night it won't forget.\n\nAnd don't forget to polish it's shiny bit ;]",
"score": 5
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"body": "I use QuickReply and Universal Search on a daily.\n\nNothing really boggling about the iPhone but tethering is nice to use when the phone itself would be too much of a chore to accomplish a task. Surprisingly to non-smartphone users, those situations rarely arise.",
"score": 4
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"body": "[OrbMedia](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/orbmedia/id297621139?mt=8) is nice. Stream any video/audio/photo from your home computer to your phone.\n\n\n[Geocaching](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geocaching/id292242503?mt=8) - nice app that lets you look up nearby geocaches and uses the GPS to help you find them\n\n\n[5-0 Radio Pro](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/5-0-radio-pro/id341776037?mt=8) - Listen to local police radio traffic, or millions of other radio streams. Pretend to be an undercover cop with police radio innocently playing from your pocket. I mean, not really. Don't do that.\n\n\n[Pandora](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pandora-radio/id284035177?mt=8) - I hardly bother putting songs on my phone anymore, I just listen to Pandora",
"score": 3
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"body": "I beta tested an app named [ThumbJam](http://thumbjam.com/) which is now out in the app store. I love it. It's a musical app that blows everything else out of the water. It's $5 and worth every penny. Even if your not musical I recommend getting it. You can pick dozens of sampled instruments and loop them in any key and any scale. Once you start a loop your scale and key are set. Basically this means you can't hit a bad note! \n\nI too am starting to become less excited about it but the fact that my phone has captivated me for so long is remarkable IMO. The next generation will be along soon enough and will raise the bar yet again. \n\nIn the mean time try [ThumbJam](http://thumbjam.com/) out and make some music.",
"score": 3
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I'm road tripping to your hometown (maybe) in the next few weeks. Show me around! | Dear Generous Persons of Reddit,
I'm taking a small road trip by myself in the coming weeks. All my friends are either working or schooling and so I'm flying solo for this one. I'll be in the following towns:
Denton, Lubbock, Albuquerque, Tucson/Phoenix/that area, San Diego, San Francisco, Medford, Portland, Boise,
Salt Lake City, Denver, and finally Wichita.
I'll be starved for company and even more starved for food. If you have the time to meet up with me, that's great! If you just want to toss me a suggestion or two in the comments, that's great too.
If you do want to meet up, send me a message and I'll let you know what dates I'll be in those towns. It wouldn't do, me posting my travel plans up for the world to see, would it?
Here's to hoping the kindness of strangers helps this Texan see the states!
| 28 | [
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"body": "If you haven't heard of it yet, try [couchsurfing](http://www.couchsurfing.org). Especially if you can get some references before your trip. It's a great project and fun for both hosts and surfers.",
"score": 6
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