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Women of Reddit: Your services are requested. | What is the male cologne that turns you on the most? Has there ever been an experience where a smell just put you over the top? | 4 | [
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"body": "Not too sure about specific colognes, but if a guy smells like Irish Springs or Old Spice, that does it.",
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I live in the inner city and go to one of the largest high schools in the country. Want to hear about the hood? AMA | I've been wanting to do an AMA post about this. Maybe bring to light some things you don't hear about, but might be interested in finding out.
I have party stories, horror stories, sad stories, drug stories, etc.
Or if you just have questions about how it all works, shoot.
EDIT: I'll catch up on questions in either 6-7 period or when I get home before I go out. | 9 | [
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"body": "In my head I picture this kid trying to talk like hes black and not bending his baseball hat thats still got a sticker on it.",
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"body": "Can someone explain why this guy is getting so horribly downvoted? For example, [this comment](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/aprmj/i_live_in_the_inner_city_and_go_to_one_of_the/c0isavk) is at -10 as of now, and I honestly can't understand why...",
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"body": "I am studying to become a teacher. I would love to go into the inner city and create a dance program for the students. Many dance studios in the U.S. are in middle to upper class suburbs where people can afford to pay for lessons. I have seen dance bring children into their own and I don't think it's fair that only those who can afford it get to experience it. What advice can you give me as a teacher in general and as a teacher with such specific goals for the arts and the inner city? ",
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What was your biggest movie surprise of 2009? | Which movie did you not expect to like, but after you watched it you actually enjoyed it?
For me, it was *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.* I saw it on a plane and couldn't stop laughing.
EDIT: I thought I would just discuss how awesome I think this movie is. When I heard that they were gonna make a movie based on *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs*, I thought that it was the stupidest idea ever. I figured it would just be a cheap way to get little kids to laugh at big food. But I was very, very wrong. It had incredible wit and style, great voice acting, and hysterical visuals.
Picture this: an overweight teenager in a diaper, holding giant gold commemorative scissors, running away from catastrophe, and yelling "I really shouldn't be running with these!" | 20 | [
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"body": "Not a movie but a performance: Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach in Watchmen. He totally blew me away and saved the whole thing for me. Say what you will about the shortcomings of the movie but his performance was incredible, even with a mask on 75% of the time. Deserves an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor at least. ",
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"body": "Moon didn't look like anything special from the trailer boy was I wrong. One of the best movies I have ever seen not just of the year.",
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"body": "Avatar. I felt seeing the trailers that this movie is going to suck. I was afraid it was going to be one big bomb. But it was the best movie experience for me this year.",
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"body": "Star Trek. I thought how can they reboot something like that, especially with actors that were recognizable from other works - Heroes, Shaun of the Dead, Harold and Kumar. I thought it would be a bomb. Fucking wrong. Best movie of the year, in my opinion.",
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"body": "Has to be *The Hurt Locker* for me. \n\nI knew nothing going in, was blown away by the performances, story and direction, and have since become much more active with staying 'in the dark' regarding releases. ",
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"body": "District 9, all the way. I will say though, 2009 was the best year for movies I've seen in my short life. \n\nStar Trek and Avatar were also incredible. Good year for sci-fi. I would be very surprised if these films don't rake in a couple Globes/Oscars.",
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"body": "World's Greatest Dad\n\nIt contains one of the most genuinely sad scenes in a comedy that I can recall but had me laughing almost immediately after.\n\nOnly for those who like dark comedies though.\n",
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"body": "*In the Loop* for me. I hadn't seen or heard about the movie or the TV series it was based on when I saw it. This is probably one of the greatest satires I have ever seen, and one of the better comedies. ",
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"body": "The Men who Stare at Goats. Didn't think it would be anything special but had me laughing quite a few times. I've got a bit of a man crush on George Clooney though.",
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"body": "I have to speak up to back up your claims about Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. The trailers looked stupid and I thought for sure it'd be total fluff I'd completely dismiss, but it turned out to be possibly the best comedy I've seen this year. The comedic timing and pacing in this film is just perfect, and the casting is superb - everyone from Mr. T and NPH to James Caan is perfectly utilized and represented.\n\nOverall, I think this was a darn good year for animated films in general, and for once I don't even think Pixar's latest was the undisputed champion - as much as I think Up was a good film, I believe Cloudy was funnier, Coraline had a better story, Nine had more impressive visuals, and The Fantastic Mr. Fox had more heart poured into it.\n\nIn particular, I think the stop-motion films really stood out this year. Despite everything going to CG these days as computers make seemingly the most impossible possible, Coraline and The Fantastic Mr. Fox struck me as showing the most imagination, with the former perfectly pairing Neil Gaiman's \"too good to be true\" fantasy world with Tom Sellick's amazing artistic style, and the latter making its animal characters seem more human than most human characters in movies these days.\n\nHowever, my top pick for movie surprise of 2009 has to be Avatar, and specifically I mean the visuals. I've always thought that these dumb 3D movies were a stupid gimmick, a flash in the pan that refused to die. However, in spite of this, Avatar made me a believer. I truly felt like the only way this film could be experienced as it was meant to was in an IMAX theater with those dumb 3D glasses. Unlike other 3D films that tried to make things pop out at you (and thus killing immersion), Avatar seemed more interested on bringing you *into* the film, getting you to feel the lush natural environment as if it were around you and not just the film's characters. After Avatar, I've had to rethink my dismissal of this 3D stuff - now I know it truly *could* be the future of movies, if filmmakers can only put it to good use.",
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"body": "JCVD was not what I was expecting at all and turned out to be probably one of the best movies I saw last year.\n\nI was also surprised by The Hangover being as good as it was. \nWas expecting much less.\n\nOther films I enjoyed I was expecting to enjoy... \nAvatar, Moon, Hurt Locker, District 9, etc.\n\nThe last 12 months have been pretty good for movie releases all in all.",
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"body": "I was expecting Black Dynamite to be a blaxploitation flick spoof but it turned out to be a great homage.",
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"body": "[Away We Go](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176740/) I thought it was gonna be dull and vanilla, but it wasn't bad at all. I actually really liked it.",
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"body": "The only thing better than a good movie is a movie you think is going to be awful that turns out to be good. In 2009 that happened for me with Sam Raimi's *Drag Me To Hell*. \n\nAn unexpectedly enjoyable experience.",
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"body": "Let the Right One In: When I heard about it, the description can never do it justice. I was floored by how beautiful, sad, smart and.... good it was. It's too bad the American dvd release had to include terrible subtitle translation. If you want to see it, make sure you see it with the REAL subtitles!!",
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If you had superhero powers, what would you do with them in the real world? | I was thinking about the movie Jumper recently - not strictly a superhero movie, but being able to teleport to anywhere you've been/seen before is effectively a superpower. Anyway, it occurred to me that robbing the bank the way he did would be far more tricky in real life. He'd have to see inside the vault first, which isn't that easy to arrange (asking to go to the toilet and sneaking to the vault door while it's open isn't likely to work in a real bank). The money might be under lock and key in some way inside the vault. Even if he got into it he'd have to deal with trackable notes, dye packets etc.
So I was wondering, especially for less godlike superheroes than the likes of Superman/Wonder Woman, how would you use your superpowers if you actually had them? Would you fight crime, and in real life how practical would your powers be against crime? Could you find crime and get to the scene quickly enough etc? If you instead decided to make money from them, legally or illegally, how could you do it? | 11 | [
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"body": "I always imagine having some of the powers as Dr. Manhattan when I'm at work. I don't need the God-like powers of being able to control all matter, but if I could somehow be able to make any chemical composition by rearranging atoms instantaneously, and then test them, my research in high temperature superconductivity would be incredibly faster. Instead of waiting 2 weeks to prepare a sample, I could make 10 in a matter of seconds, test them, and see if they work. Awesome!\n\n...Then I'd go look through walls and stare at girls' boobies...",
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"body": "I'd find drug houses, bust them up, then steal all the money from them. Let the cops come clean up the mess afterwards.\n\nDo the same with the mob and Goldman Sachs. ",
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The saddest thing just happened... | Hey /r/dwarffortress
Firstly, I'd like to thank everyone who took your time to reply to my previous threads and helping me out. It has served me great having an answer to my questions, not answerable by the Wiki.
Anyway, I have a very sad story to tell you...
A few moments ago a dwarf of mine succumbed to the intense heat that the stirring magma pools erupted. Since I am fairly inexperienced with magma still, I supposed this could happen to any dwarf. But this dwarf in particular, was a true fighter: _Erith Gusildeler_ had witnessed a great deal of despair in his short lifetime. He had witnessed the decay of his own mother, whom had been driven to insanity caused by not being able to successfully craft her artifact after taking over a workshop. Her fey mood was caused by the fall of her husband who had died in battle against foul goblins. But Eriths mother didn't just die instantly, she starved and dehydrated herself to death... while carrying Erith.
Yes, that's right. Erith was still only a baby when he ascended to the heavens of Istam (his deity). He managed to live almost a season without help from anyone in the fortress, regardless of having no father or mother. He was a fighter!
(I don't know, but I'm starting to like this game!) | 18 | [
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"body": "I once accidentally channeled a magma vent without realizing that the channel would pass over the housing district. After many deaths and a successful walling to cut off a hallway the fortress had been reduced from around 100 dwarves to about 12. One of these was a baby.\n\nThe central shaft from the center of the housing district acted like a drain giving the magma a path to the lower mines so that the housing district could be salvaged. Only a few puddles of magma remained now. I watch as the infant, the mother of whom had gone crazy in the magma disaster because of loss of loved ones, crawled slowly down passages and stairways, all the while heading towards one of the only puddles of magma. I then watched him crawl into it and die.\n\nProbably one of the strangest things I've ever seen in DF (and that's saying something). Best I can figure is infants are naturally attracted to magma (\"Ooh, shiny!\"), because he wasn't in a mood (can babies *get* moods?).\n\nAlso, his mother became mayor and kept \"attend meeting\" with herself. She would then tantrum and break things, calm down, then \"attend meeting\" some more...",
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"body": "Tragedy happens so often in DF that I tend to imagine the average fortress less as a Moria-esque architectural masterpiece, and more of a vast underground South American favela.",
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Hey ladies, a question about waxing inside :) | I get my lip waxed and I always get little white pimples for the next week on my top lip.
Is there any way to stop this?? It's really embarrassing.
Thanks :) :) | 7 | [
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"body": "Don't wax inside! Waxing is only for external hair! \n\n*heehee.*\n\nWaxing my eyebrows always irritates my skin in the same way. An astringent like witch hazel should help. You should ask what your waxer uses as a soother lotion after the waxing, it could contain something that you're sensitive to? If the witch hazel doesn't help, try just a little bit of preparation H or other hydrocortisone cream. ",
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"body": "You might want to consider getting laser hair removal for the area. In the long run, it might save you money and will definitely save you a lot of hassle.",
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"body": "I can't wax my lip because I get horrible, swollen ingrown hairs a few days later. I also get the little white bumps too. I bleach instead.",
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"body": "Do you thoroughly clean the area before you wax? Exfoliate right before you wax and clean it with an antiseptic afterward. What also might help if you treat the area to a hot compress to open up the pores. I usually dabbed some carrot creme on it to finish. It gives back oils and vitamins to the skin. \nBut I just recently bought an epilator. Works like a charm for me for all areas. Quite painful at first but really thorough and quite quick. It even gets those pesky thin hairs.",
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"body": "Apply tea tree oil after waxing, and continue to do so at least twice a day for a few days after waxing.\n\nAlso, if you have an Aveda salon nearby, check out their compositions. (Energizing would work best.) All of them are made with jojoba oil, which is closest to our body's natural oil. Waxing removes all the dead skin cells, leaving newer cells exposed, encouraging follicles to become irritated and infected (little white pimples). Replacing those dead skin cells with something close to our body's natural oil will help calm the exposed skin.",
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Been cheated on, need advice reddit. | I always thought the people that poured their hearts out on here were stupid and should seek real life help, but I find myself in a situation that I have nowhere else to turn. I just found out yesterday that my wife of 6 years has been having online chat sex with people for the past two months. I find this out by trying to put my own psychotic thoughts out of my head, as I was feeling like dirt accusing her of things. So I read the chat logs. To find chats that hurt me to my core, and oddly enough made me jealous as what was happening I could only wish for that kind of compassion in the few months. Also in other chats with some of her friends she was talking about getting a seperation/divorce.
In confronting her she hasn't been completely honest, I'm staying at my bro's house at the moment and the more time that passes the more hurt I am. I love her, and she gave away a piece of her that was only ours to share. She tells me she is sorry, and loves me, and wants to work things out, and that she stopped doing this stuff a couple weeks ago. Though she has yet to tell me what got her to stop.
I'm not sure if I can get past this. How can I trust her again? How can I let her touch me and not think she is thinking of someone else? How do I know that she is really sorry, and not just sorry she got caught? What should I do?
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Thank you for the below comments, I will be reading through all comments as time permits.
To clarify a few things. Yes she knew how I felt about sex chatting and any sexual interactions outside of our relationship.
I have not thought of another person since being with her. She is/was my all, I gave my all to her. Yes we have had issues for this past year, but we agreed to work on them, and then this happens.
As far as the divorce, she was waiting for later this week to spring it on me.
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UPDATE: I've posted a conclusion of sorts to this post here: http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/d1aay/slow_conclusion_of_the_breakdown_of_my_marriage/
Thank you all for your advice!
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"body": "Your best bet is probably marriage counseling. \n\nEdit: one trap you *really* need to stay out of is playing the blame game. Assuming you want to stay together, your goal should be to talk about feelings and repair the relationship - **not** argue about whose fault something was.",
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"body": "Here's a news flash for you: a significant majority of people have fantasies of someone other than their partner before, during and after sex. It doesn't mean that they don't love their partners any longer, it just means that variety is the spice of life. It's sad that she couldn't trust you with these fantasies, but you might want to consider that perhaps she knows *you* well enough to realize you couldn't handle it.\r\n\r\nClearly, your relationship needs better communication. The suggestions for marriage counseling are absolutely correct, but she's not the only one with the problem. You do as well, and if you do enter counseling it should be with that understanding. You need to encourage her to share these feelings and fantasies without worrying about creating a hostile environment. Counseling will not be to \"fix\" her, but to fix the breakdown of communication between the two of you.",
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What is wrong with my ex? | I dated a girl for 3 months, and while we were dating we got along really well. Eventually, I realized that we had a lot of idealogical differences that would prevent us from working long term, so I broke it off with her. I'm seeing someone else now, which I am sure she is aware of because of Facebook.
Her initial reaction to the breakup was anger, so I left that night and was told never to try to communicate with her again. About two days later, she contacted me and said she acted irrationally and wanted to stay civil with me. We had previously had plans to see a concert the next weekend, which we did, and we both had a good time. She came to terms with her anger, and we spoke frankly about why things wouldn't work.
We were both really busy during the holidays, but we had made plans to see another concert in February as friends. I already bought the tickets. But during the break, she kind of flipped out on me a few times about why I didn't ask her how her Christmas or New Years was (which I thought was really weird, we broke up! Why does she have expectations of me?)
This week, she was out of town, and I invited a female friend that I met through her (but haven't seen since we broke up) to play bar trivia with me and my coworkers. She initially sounded interested, but she must have spoken to my ex, because she said "I didn't realize you guys were on bad terms." The thing is, I didn't even know we were on bad terms, because we were planning on seeing this concert in February!
Today, she sends me an email saying that she removed me from facebook and gchat. She says it's because I'm not interested in her, only her friends, and it's my responsibility to make my own friends. She rants and raves for a few paragraphs about how she doesn't even want me to reply to this email because she no longer cares to talk to me?
**Summary:** My ex and I decided to be friends and have some outstanding plans to go to a concert. I started seeing someone else. I recently invited a friend I met through her to play bar trivia with my friends. Ex sends a raging email saying she never wants to talk to me again.
Reddit, why did my ex feel like she needed to cut out of her life completely? Do most people keep each other as Facebook friends/Gchat buddies when they break up amicably? If this were her writing on Reddit, what do you think her complaints with me would be?
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"body": "Alright.. if I was writing as her, here's what I think it would sound like:\n\nSo I was dating this guy for like 3 months...things were going really well, or at least I thought, until he dumped me for these stupid \"ideological\" reasons. I got really pissed, and perhaps irrationally told him I never wanted to talk to him again. \n\nAfter I had a couple days to cool off, I realized how much he actually meant to me, and how I would probably at least like to have him as a friend, so I told him so. He explained more about why he broke up with me. Things seemed cool. \n\nBut then Christmas rolls around and he doesn't even bother wishing me a Merry Christmas. Some friend right? I mean if we're really friends wouldn't he at least have done that? Instead he invites one of my friends with him to a bar. So that shows what he's really after. Screw this. \n\nTL: DR - she obviously still cares about you. you may have thought the break up was amicable, but it was probably one sided. \n",
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"body": "Historically, the advice RA has given anyone who couldn't get over an ex was to cut them out of their life completely. I would say that this is the approach she ended up taking with you because she still has feelings for you.",
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"body": "A couple years ago I broke up with a girlfriend who was really into me at the time. However, she was so attached to me that she would rather not ever talk/see to me again than be friends because she couldn't deal the emotional pain.\n\nEdit: She also de-friended/unfriended me on facebook.",
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"body": "I've got news for you: your break-up no longer falls under the category of \"amicable.\" She's not taking it well and it doesn't sound like she's over you, and if that's the case, then it's a good thing for her to cut off contact with you and block you on the social networking sites. And honestly, it's probably better for you if she does, since she's sort of going a bit nuts when you two do talk.\n\nAlso, do this girl a favor and try not to make any plans with her for a while... it might be confusing her a little bit, even though you're communicating your feelings with words.\n\nIt's tough to see an ex get involved with someone else. That's probably all that's going on.",
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"body": "Well wouldn't YOU be upset if she started seeing one of your friends? Some friends...I would peace out too.\n\n*I would also tell my \"friend\" to fuck off too. Clearly a lack of respect from both of you.",
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I have a really bad memory. | I'm in my mid 20's, an educated, healthy non-smoker, and I have almost no effective memory.
As a kid, my mind was like a trap, and now I can't remember more than 1 or 2 things I did yesterday. I'm still very quick, and able to solve problems better now than ever before. But I don't remember most things.
Anybody else in the same boat? Any ideas what may be going on? Thanks in advance, wise reddit folk. | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm exactly the same way as you are, point for point.\n\nWhile I haven't been practicing this, this may help. Try practicing mindfulness, where you are consciously observing every moment through your senses. A really simple example is chewing a grape. While you're chewing a grape, most people would probably think about other things or being pre-occupied with tv or the computer. If you're consciously being aware of the smell, taste, texture, and colour of a grape, you may be able to better apply this to other things that you do, which may help improve memory. I could be totally wrong, though.",
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If you could go back in time...where & when would you go | If it were possible of course. Anywhere anytime is game.
Personally, Paris round the turn of the 20th century to catch impressionism getting big. Like 5 years or so
edit: You get to go back to be involved but not to make a difference. Any language you need to know you learn instantly on arrival. Your time of transport is set by you and only you. So you can go anywhere for any amount of time that is humanly possible. IE if you go to the middle ages you can live out your life but your probably not gonna make it past 40. You can't bring anything with you except your current knowledge (this is a time warp dammit!) | 3 | [
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"body": "I would save the Library of Alexandria. I'm probably going to need a little help though. Who's with me?!!!",
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[0] Yet Another Reason To Love /trees | I love coming to /trees. It's really the only subreddit I visit, and arguably the only reason I'm on reddit at all.
Sure, /trees has stuff about MJ, something we all love, but it's the extra special touches that really make this community what it is. Like the fact that everyone's so cool.
But one of my favorite things about /trees is the fact that it's always changing! Yesterday we had 3000 some twigs. Today it's ents. A few days ago there was a magnifying glass over the weed leaf in the icon - I guess someone was taking a solar hit (still need to do that), and now there's the little pineapple icon up there. There's always little tidbits that are changing, and that's a big part of what makes this place so great.
Oh, and tomorrow I end my slightly-longer-than-a-month t-break. I'm so excited!!! (You might see some pics from that one tomorrow)
tl;dr: basically /trees is awesome. Thanks mods! | 43 | [
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"body": "I like you. [:3]\n\nEDIT: [<3] should be like the pi equivalent in highness. That magical number that just goes on and on. Love.",
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"body": "[6] I feel you man. Keep having fun and don't get caught tomorrow. \n\nAlso, have you noticed how sometimes the little description up at the top of your browser? It's pretty cool. A couple of days ago we were the Marijuana Smokehause :D",
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"body": "btw thanks to all that wished me well. I think I got my cold on the ropes. y'all have a good evening!",
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"body": "I just found out about /trees/ today, after literally scrounging the internet for somewhere to talk weed and already being a reddit member! (Too high, too high)\n\nAlso, does [#] indicate your highness at the time of post?",
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"body": "I'm also ending my T-break tomorrow! HURRAY! <3 /r/trees. I'm glad that I have a community filled with love that embraces all of our highness~",
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Ok, its time to study for the GMAT. Can you recommend a good study book? | I am a senior marketing student interested in applying to business school. My plan is to take the GMAT in ~3 months, can you help me find a test prep study guide? | 3 | [
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"body": "Use the orange book published by the GMAT council. Also, they have 2 free electronic tests online for download. I bought the Princeton Review one but found it woefully lacking... except for their online practice exams. Good luck!",
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Backcountry gear suggestions | We're heading off to Hokkaido in a few weeks and are heading to a few Ropeway mountains with plenty of backcountry runs.
I'd be interested to hear comments about what gear you guys think is important for a few weeks:
We have:
- Whistles
- Compass
- 2-way radios
We are looking to hire avalanche beacons when we get there, but will probably pick up before we go:
- Shovel
- Probe
Anyone have any suggestions for shovel/probe/backpack combos ?
Anything else we've left off the list ? | 3 | [
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"body": "One of the most important items to have: \n\nAn experienced backcountry person who is your pack leader.\n\nPreferably a local who knows the area well",
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"body": "you should NOT be going to the backcountry with your own group if you dont know what to get, it is not something to take lightly especially if it is your first time, get a guide and do it the right way and get experience before you venture on your own not trying to be an a-hole but you could easily get yourself killed",
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A quick question on squats. | If you maintain proper form while preforming squats, should you feel the effects more in your quads or in you hamstrings/glutes? Or should you feel the effects somewhere else? I've been doing simple body squats to practice my form, and I feel it more in my quads. Is this normal? | 11 | [
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"body": "For most people, the differences in muscles effected comes down to a difference in squat technique and form. Powerlifting squats (folding down and out on themselves from their middles) bring much more focus to your hips, glutes, and lower back. Traditional bodybuilding squats (high back, going to parallel or just below) is pretty quad dominant, with some hamstring involvement. This is also proably the worst of the squat variations for performance and strength, for what it's worth. And finally, traditional Olympic squats (high bar, straight back, ass to grass) are much more quad and hamstring focused, as well as bringing the entire posterior chain into play. \n\nWith body weight squats, you're probably following the ass to grass style pretty close, so it would be more quad dominant. Also, if your quads were the weak link in the chain of muscles needed to perform the exercise, they would feel the brunt of the exercise regardless of form used. ",
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Reddit, I want to learn guitar but can't afford lessons... Any suggestions you could give me? | I've always wanted to learn but lack the money to take lessons. I'm also not friends with someone who could teach me. I'm wondering where the best place to start is - What exercises I should be doing maybe, or how I should go about just building some skill. Are there any good websites that would be helpful for a beginner? Or do any of you seasoned guitar players have any personal advice? | 11 | [
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"body": "Try Cyberfret. Otherwise just grab a guitar, look up some chords, memorize the A C D E F and G major/minor chords, and fuck around. I'm aware that I skipped B, but honestly I never really use it and it's the hardest one to finger :P\n\nOnce you've got the chords down, you can try some more complicated chords and some lead. But start with the easy chords.",
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Xingu - black lager. Everything I expected about it was wrong. It became an instant favorite of mine. | [Website here](http://www.xingubeer.com/xingu.html); I'm trying not to karma whore.
I saw this beer at a local specialty store, and I had never heard of it or seen it before. Due to its black color, I thought it would have a character similar to an imperial stout, porter, or something of the sort.
I poured it into a glass and it developed a bit of a small head, about 1/2". The aroma was not unlike that of the beers I mentioned, but when you taste it, it is clearly not an ale. And due to the appearance, this feels a bit strange, but it is good. It has some of the rich, roasted malt character of an imperial stout without feeling syrupy or leaving much aftertaste. It is markedly not as chocolatey either.
The thing I liked most about it was its really nice light hops and rich flavor, all while feeling light and being one of the most drinkable beers I think I've ever tasted.
I feel like it has all the best qualities that I appreciate from a stout and a lager. It is fairly weak at 4.6% ABV, which is evident since it is distinctly not sweet, unlike some of the higher ABV beers.
They call it "black silk" and I am inclined to agree with this sentiment.
I couldn't really find any faults about it, except it ran me almost $2 per bottle. It would be nice to find it for cheaper.
I haven't seen this before on Reddit, and I even did a search. Cheers!
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"body": "It's good to see Schwarzbier finally getting its due by beer drinkers. Hands down one of my favorite styles.\n\nHere's a listing of other Schwarzbiers from Ratebeer:\nhttp://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/schwarzbier/29/\n\nMay the Schwarz be with you!",
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IL Senator Dick Durbin's response to my pro-marijuana legalization letter (he's against it). | A month or so ago, I wrote a letter to a Senator of my home state, Illinois, demanding that he raise questions and begin debates in Congress that should be happening but aren't. I urged him to ignore the current status quo on marijuana and stand up for what he believes (and what much of the nation believes) is right. I'm very glad he took the time to respond instead of dismissing it as unworthy of debate. I disagree with a lot of what he says, but I'm happy with all sides of the argument sharing their opinions, rather than no words being spoken about this issue. Here is his full response:
>Dear Mr. Brown:
Thank you for your message about our nation's drug policies and marijuana. I appreciate knowing your thoughts.
I oppose the legalization of marijuana for general use. While marijuana use may not be lethal, it certainly can be harmful to an individual's brain. Marijuana users often experience visual distortions, difficulty in expressing simple thoughts in words, a decline in color recognition, and impaired motor skills. Two other proven side effects are sexual dysfunction and short-term memory loss.
>At the same time, I believe that marijuana may have a medical application when prescribed by a doctor in specific cases, such as glaucoma and the alleviation of pain in some patients with chronic illnesses.
The Supreme Court has ruled that medical necessity cannot be used as a defense against prosecution under the federal law prohibiting cultivation and distribution of marijuana - not even in states that have created a medical marijuana exception to their comparable ban under state law.
>I believe that federal policy would benefit from a carefully crafted medical use exemption for marijuana that includes adequate safeguards against abuse. In 2004, I was joined by Senators Pat Leahy and Jim Jeffords of Vermont in introducing the Truth in Trials Act, which would have made changes in the Controlled Substances Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to accommodate states that have approved exemptions for the medicinal use of marijuana. Unfortunately, this measure did not become law.
>The Obama Administration's Justice Department recently instituted a new policy encouraging federal prosecutors not to waste resources on prosecuting individuals who use or distribute medical marijuana, in states where medicinal marijuana is legal, when those actions are in compliance with state laws. This will allow federal resources to be redirected to address large-scale drug trafficking networks rather than small medicinal marijuana users.
>We also need to address our nation's drug problem by developing longer-term solutions to the problem of drug abuse. We need to invest in treatment programs so that prisoners do not automatically return to their old ways when they leave prison. Drug courts and the drug abuse treatment programs that they operate have shown promise in reducing recidivism and helping non-violent drug addicts overcome their addictions. We must continue to explore solutions such as these.
>Additionally, we need to increase the resources available for prevention, to stop the drug problem before it starts. Well-designed prevention programs can provide children with the necessary skills to resist substance abuse and violence.
>I will continue to support funding for prevention and treatment along with law enforcement efforts that recognize a carefully crafted exception for the medical use of marijuana pursuant to a doctor's prescription.
Thanks again for sharing your views. Please feel free to keep in touch. | 10 | [
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"body": "Are these problems he had when he smoked pot when he was younger? I'm assuming they are since he mentioned sexual dysfunction. ",
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What is your favorite quote motivational quotes | I've become really lazy, I need some words of encouragement to get out there and do something..... or at least get me to do my work. Something short and sweet that I can post as my wallpaper or something. [Current one not working](http://www.kasraaa.de/web/wp-content/gallery/wallpaper-general/Do-Your-Work.jpg)
edit: Wow love the quotes so far. I think I want to make quotes collage wallpaper or something now | 4 | [
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"body": "One of my very good co-workers emailed me this during the time of my depression:\n\n> **Only you can make the decision that you deserve better. Only you can define what better means to you. And only you can make the choices to create the future you desire. FOCUS. Clarity through contrast**",
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The worst joke on poor people ever... | I was shopping at my local dollar store and stumbled across this beauty. I thought this was something that you washed out of your hair.
Notice the splooge..
http://imgur.com/TbLf2.jpg
And the end display they had for it!
http://imgur.com/ZPZjt.jpg
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"body": "Somebody in marketing probably realized this little problem, and that's how it ended up in the dollar store. \n\nA lot of dollar store products are normal-store-quality products bought at a discount because of packaging mistakes/changes.",
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"body": "its not just poor people who shop at the dollar stores. Frugal people shop there too. \n\nGood deals on a variety of products.",
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Ideas for Sandwiches to Make at Work | I was making sandwiches at home and bringing them to work, but it turns out that I'm too tired and lazy to do this at night. I would greatly appreciate any ideas for sandwiches.
Criteria:
-No preparation other than using a toaster oven and microwave.
-Ingredients can be bought 1-2 weeks ahead and will store well in a fridge or freezer.
-Not overly complex.
-Cheap.
-Delicious.
Thanks for your help. | 13 | [
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"body": "Jarlsberg cheese, an apple or pear, and wheat thins. I realize I've strayed outside of your parameters as this isn't a sandwich. It is, however, a winning combination, and incredibly easy. It's also quite cheap if you can get your Jarlsberg at Costco (Like 8 dollars for a week and half's worth), it's more expensive at regular grocery stores (Like 9 dollars for half that much).",
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"body": "fresh basil, fresh tomato, and your choice of cheese toasted over the top (Gruyere is my choice). No need for condiments on this.",
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I am going to be a father in a couple of days. Please give me advice on how to become a good father. | We are anxiously awaiting the little ones arrival. This is our first child. Please advise me one how to be a good father to a boy or girl. Thanks...
EDIT: Thanks for all the advice. It takes a village to raise a child and i appreciate all your efforts. I'll try and follow through with them. | 9 | [
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"body": "Treat them like little adults, kids are products of their environments and will mimic and copy subconsciously the way you handle or do things, if you want calm kids be calm etc.",
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"body": "Make a point to eat dinner together every night. Sitting down and talking during meals was the best thing my parents did for my brothers and I.",
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"body": "There was a stark contrast between our first and second child. During the first, we worried about everything. Was she breathing properly? Did she get enough to eat? Why won't she go sleep? etc., etc. For the second, most things didn't worry us because we knew most things were not a big a deal as previously thought.\n\nSo my advice is, when you are worried about your kid, tell yourself to take it down a notch or two, knowing that it probably is not as dire as you think at first.\n\nRelax more, stress less. And love every minute of it. You're in for a wild ride.\n\n\n",
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"body": "Express curiosity about the world with your child. Learning to ask questions and be inquisitive will, while possibly annoying for some time, make them a better person. ",
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"body": "-**Let your child make mistakes, how else are they going to learn if you over protect them**.\n\n-**Kids are supposed to fall down and pick themselves up**.\n\n-Feed them the food that you are eating, they'll thank you for exposing them down the line. \n\n-Talk to them like they are little adults, they are trying their hardest to be just like you. \n\n-Make little tickets for your kids that allows them to pull you from whatever you are doing and play with them. (\"This ticket is good for one sled ride at any time\") \n\n-Don't use threats, use consequences that they understand to actions that are no acceptable. \n\n-The worst babysitters are the TV and the computer, **don't hire them**. \n\n-Play lots of genres of music. Who knows, you might find a new fan of your music in the house. \n\n-Read Aesop's Fables to your child. Heck, read anything to your child to extend their imagination. \n\n-Eat dinner together as a family as much as you can. It isn't about the food, its about the experience of sharing.\n\n\n\nGood luck! Reddit wishes you well!",
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Cool stories or pictures from your adventures so far | I know we're all playing as much as we can now that the servers are somewhat stable, but take a minute to share a fun or interesting experience with everyone. | 7 | [
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"body": "Not so much a cool story as just a cool moment.\n\nSo I was on my way to do one of the story missions. While I was warping through sector space, I suddenly get a distress call from a nearby star system. It turns out I had to rescue some space miners from a sabotaged asteroid mine. \n\nIt just felt like one of those TNG episode openings where Picard's narrating his \"While en route to Starbase so-and-so, we received a distress signal from blah blah...\"",
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Nietzsche: for the Interested and Depressed | Let me begin by dispelling a common misconception; Nietzsche is not a nihilist. If you associate him with nihilism, dear reader, it may be easier for you to understand what I am about to say if you pretend that you have never heard the name of Friedrich Nietzsche.
I find that many individuals come to a point where they stop, look around, and realize that they are a mouse in a labyrinth hunting for cheese; however, not only do they seem to be losing the game, but they don't quite see the point of even playing. They find that everything around them is an false image. So much phoniness surrounds them with no escape. Then they look at themselves and find that they have nothing to live for. Congratulations friend, if this is you, you have stumbled upon the dark truth of man. You have made it half the way the way there, but I feel you have one more conclusion to draw that will return purpose to your life!
Beginning with the arguments of Plato, Socrates, and other Greek philosophers, the original purpose of man was to follow a telos, a goal to seek the purest form of the self. For these thinkers, there was a pure form of justice, of triangles, of logic, and of man that were concealed by images projected by the objects themselves and by culture, and only through argumentation can one find these Forms in a sort of team-effort. This sort of thinking provides, at the very least, a basis for morals and is the foundation for the character we try to instill in children. Remember, even before you started school, how your mothers tried to teach you to be honest and kind as though they were inherent characteristics of man.
Eventually, people began to question the existence of these Forms such as Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Nietzsche, Joseph Conrad, among others. Each of them provided their alternatives to these forms. Likewise, you, seeker of truth, have found that the forms in and of themselves are lies, and it is here you, Nietzsche, Conrad, Holden Caufield, and Hamlet have found common ground; however, it is time to move back from the abyss and find a role and participate in the grand play of this world.
Nietzsche provides a solution for this issue. Beginning with the given that ALL morality is a fiction, a construct of society, rather than attempting to distinguish truth from fiction, the distinction must be made between fiction and better fiction. Fictions range from an appreciation of Mozart and the Golden Rule to playing hockey or going to the club. But with no grounding for even this quest for fictions, it begs the question, “Why bother with these fictions?” The answer is, “That is life!” A life consists of a collection of actions, of doing, of being, of finding whatever interests you, KNOWING THAT IT IS NOT TRUE. Football, for example, consists men running about attempting to move a pigskin and tackling each other, but millions of people have adopted this fiction and made the rules a part of their lives. Conrad expresses the pursuit of better fictions as turning to “work.” Work is any activity that produces a better understanding of the self and that provides joy.
While science has discovered that we are a bunch of atoms, you can do nothing with that information! Unless of course, you are a biochemist.
I haven't expressed all that I would have liked due to homework that I've been putting off, please comment with questions, comments, hate, love, criticism, and I will try to answer accordingly.
TL;DR You may have realized that the truth is we are a bunch of atoms; however, the point of life is not necessarily to find truth but to find more ways to enjoy life and provide substance for it.
Look at Maximus Pryme comment for a more focused analysis of Nietzsche than my rambling essay. | 12 | [
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Here's another bash script that I wrote to email/text me when a server comes back online. Care to learn some more bash scripting? | [this](http://pastebin.com/f3221bc26) is the script
Ask away, I'll be here to answer all your questions on how it works.
One more thing, you have to have mailx installed on your server for the emailing thing. Here's my config file for it that uses my gmail account to email/text
Backup /etc/nail.rc, and replace it with this:
set smtp=smtp.gmail.com:587
set smtp-use-starttls
set ssl-verify=ignore
set ssl-auth=login
set smtp-auth-user=<email goes here>@gmail.com
set smtp-auth-password=<pw goes here> | 18 | [
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"body": "Why is it that you have to escape the @ in the email address? Is that something that mailx requires, and if so, couldn't the script itself do that with something like `${EMAIL/@/\\\\@}`? Also, wouldn't it be better to check the header for the http status code? Something like `if curl -Is \"$1\" | grep -q \"200 OK\"` (EDIT: wget version: `if wget -O /dev/null $1 2>&1 | grep -q \"200 OK\"`). If a server is responding to requests with 500, 503, or 404 errors, then it's not really up in any useful sense, in my opinion.",
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Portable apps for linux | I just came across this not too long ago. I was curious to see if there was something similar on linux as there is on windows.
Thought I'd share.
[Portools](http://www.portools.com/) | 11 | [
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"body": "I'm torn.\n\nFor ages, the only Linux machines across which I came were my own. I needed portable apps only when guesting on idiot Windows machines. And when even that proved insufficient, I got a Eee PC.\n\n... I'd be desperately happy to pitch this to my work colleagues; except I'm the only one using Linux on the desktop here. :-(\n\nStill... this is a beautiful step.",
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Hey Reddit! What do you think if Conan moved to HBO? | * He could do more sophisticated comedy, kind of like Dennis Miller
* He could do the kind of humor he wanted to do on Late Night that he was restricted from doing on the Tonight Show
* He could do a different format where he could do more stuff like he did with Hunter Thompson or in Finland
* He also wouldn't have to worry about ratings and competing with other Late Night shows, being on a premium network
Thoughts? | 5 | [
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"body": "I think Comedy Central is more accessible and would allow enough latitude. I have never subscribed to HBO and if he intends to do any time-sensitive comedy (what most 5-days a week shows do, using news etc.), HBO would not be a good fit.\n\nMy vote has always been Stewart hands off to Colbert hands off to Conan.",
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Reddit, remember the redditor who was selling "A box of things that are special" on ebay? I bid on and won the box. If you're curious, here is what is in it. | Refer back to [this post](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/al8eb/dear_reddit_im_trying_a_social_experiment_im/)
What is in the box:
- 1 book: The Mysterious Stranger by David Blaine
- NES game: The Adventure of Link
- 3 "comic" books from Federal Reserve Bank of New York: The story of inflation, Once upon a time, and The story of foreign trade and exchange
- McDonald moist towelette
- McDonald name tag
- busted Canon camera
- "i wish i were there" postcard
- silver key
- Wilwaukee paper tattoo
- "secret ninja checklist of doom"
- a few business cards that read "you're awesome"
- picture of someone in that detective dog costume
- "Face off! FTC World 2008" pin
- small stuffed penguin
- small stuffed unicorn
- blue plaid wallet with the no-smoking sign on it
- small stuffed wolverine doll
- magnetic travel chess
- a few playing cards
- small stuffed koala with a plastic blue "cape" that has a McDonald sticker on it
- '09 keychain
- a torn small plastic cup
- a small stuffed gorilla-looking thing
- A business card for Dahlonega General Store
- cassette: Marky Mark and the funky bunch
- Dell computer mouse
- professional picture of the Redditor who sent me this box
- metal pin
- green notepad
- plastic knife in its plastic bag holder
- Smart Mass Thinking Putty by Thinkgeek.com
- audio cd: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
- a pocket-size Declaration of Independence/Constitution of the United States
- ticket stub for Dan Deacon
All in all, it was a fun time opening this box and discovering a few pieces of a complete stranger's life. Cheers. | 189 | [
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"body": "Um, how come no one has asked what's on the \"secret ninja checklist of doom?\" \n\nFine, allow me: What's on the \"secret ninja checklist of doom?\" \n",
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"body": "This is so cool. I am a middle school teacher and am \"supposed\" to take non-school related things away from kids in class. My own rule is that I will ask them once, politely, to put things away. If I see that thing again, I take it...and put it into my \"Weird Box of Things I've Taken From Kids\"...it's quite a collection. The kids beg me to show them what is in it once in a while...I told them I will sell it on E-Bay someday and use the money to pay for a 7th grade field trip. As a bonus, I would include the big rubber band ball I've constructed over the years out of rubber bands I've taken away from students.",
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"body": "Don't be ungrateful. Do you have any idea what McGuyver would be able to do with all that? Take over the whole world. Money well-spent.",
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"body": "I know I'm ruining it by pointing it out, but no one's downvoted this yet. I can't really see why you'd want to. XD",
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"body": "Now, go watch [Charade](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056923/) in its entirety and look it all over again.\n\nJust in case. ",
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"body": "Proof to what I have always said, \"People will buy anything on eBay. You just have to come up with the right story.\"\n\nBTW, I have sold some NASTY stuff on eBay and got good bucks and good feedback on the sales. A decomposing seal skull I picked up on the beach went for nearly $100 even though I had to bury it in my yard during the week of the auction because it smelled so damn bad.",
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"body": "> a pocket-size Declaration of Independence/Constitution of the United States\n\nLucky bastard. Those things are rare.",
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"body": "Holy crap, I have like 20 \"Face off!\" pins in my house from last year. I ran out of things to put them on....",
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"body": "At first I was like, \"You just paid money for trash.\" But then I was like, \"Wow, you now know enough about a complete stranger to say you are friends without ever meeting.\" I'm jealous. I would definitely treasure that junk if I were you.",
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"body": "Making this list and posting it here doubles the box's value, IMO. It's actually fun rather than a big box of junk.\r\n\r\nCan I ask how much the final bid was?",
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Who Really Wants To Live Forever? | I first contemplated this subject when I was nine, looking out the bay window of my living room. It was a scary thought. I had imagined a scenario in heaven with my parents drinking red wine. I wondered what I would eat for dinner, and I figured because it was heaven, I could have anything. I thought I might have KFC.
But then I though about the next day and the next day. Wouldn't I get bored? Is eating good food the main thing people do in heaven? I thought about this going on forever and it lost its appeal, which frightened me. I didn't want to live eternally.
Now I regard this wish to live forever as just a desperate overreaction to the human fear of death and the unknown. | 5 | [
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"body": "Mostly, those who aren't happy with the life they have, which is more than just a little bit ironic.",
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"body": "Hasn't Queen [already asked this question](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYOE_b4aYD0)? Could you set your question to music and ask it again please?",
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"body": "Read \"Time Enough For Love\" by R.A. Heinlein.\n\nEveryone can find a reason to want to make it to the next day of their life, and wish it would never end. And change being a constant, the world would only get boring if you let it.",
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Will Google offer an unlocked version of the CDMA Nexus One? Will the subsidised model work on a family plan? | The Nexus One comes to Verizon in a few months. Will there be an unlocked version of that phone so I can buy it without a contract?
Either way, will the Verizon-subsidised version work with a family plan? I'm under the impression that the subsidised T-Mobile version requires an individual plan.
Rumours welcome. | 6 | [
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"body": "I have a feeling there will be an unlocked version (since that essentially the entire point of the google.com/phone store). Also, it is always less expensive to pay for the unlocked phone up front than higher monthly fees with a subsidized price. You are also then not locked into contract and can change your plan whenever you want. Never buy subsidized if you don't have to.",
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Buddhist Forgiveness-When We Have Hurt Another-Part 1 | When we hurt others, and our conscience is awake, we suffer. While having a conscience is good, the Buddha is all about the ending of suffering, right? So, what do we do?
http://mettarefuge.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/buddhisms-practical-answer-to-the-problem-of-evil-part-1/ | 11 | [
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"body": "As someone who has very recently hurt someone else, I understand this suffering. I'm not exactly a Buddhist, but I will tell you what my highly spiritual/philosophical therapist tells me. She says that you should experience the pain, really feel it, but don't become it. Don't merge with it. Experience it, acknowledge it, then let is pass. Use it as a learning tool, but don't become the pain. \n\nBe kind to yourself. Learn the lessons and let the pain pass. Don't hold onto it in order to punish yourself until you feel like you've had enough punishment. ",
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Reddit, how do I ask out a server? | **The situation:** I often eat at a diner-type restaurant near where I live. I've developed a rapport with one of the servers there. We're on a first-name basis and I've learned enough about her to discern some common interests (travel, history, philosophy, amongst others). I haven't picked up any clear signals from her, though she did bring me home-made pie from her family's Thanksgiving last year (no charge).
**The quandary:** I'd love to ask this girl out for a coffee or a drink. That said, I'm friends with enough servers to know that they *hate* being hit on by customers. I want to be respectful and certainly don't want to make her feel uncomfortable on the job. Also, if I get shot down, I doubt I'd have the stones to eat at this establishment again. That would be a shame since they make a mean BLT.
**The question:** Is there a way I can ask this girl out without seeming like a letch? Bonus points for responses from servers, past or present.
**The thanks:** Thanks for all the responses, especially from those of you who know the restaurant biz. There seems to be a lot of support for the idea of leaving a note so I'm thinking that might be the approach I take. Another commenter suggested I bring a wingman to feel out the vibe on my behalf; I'm considering this as well. Oh, and for those of you who came here expecting to find a man lusting over a server of the blinking and beeping variety... [here you go](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/510119749_4b13747b16.jpg?v=0). | 14 | [
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"body": "I came here expecting a [server.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_%28computing%29) I am disappoint.",
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"body": "With a girl that you're unsure about it's always best to take a nice non-confrontational approach.\n\nGo, request a table in her section. Gab her up during the meal, gauge her interest, etc.\n\nIf it goes well, leave her a nice tip and a note with your phone number and a request for her to call you sometime for drinks.\n\nThen, just wait and see if she calls. \n\nIf she calls you're golden.\n\nIf not, just wait a little bit and go back to the restaurant again, but play it cool; don't ask to sit in her section or anything.\n\nShe may not have called because she wanted to approach you next time you came in. Maybe she'll approach you and say yes. Then again, you're golden.\n\nMaybe she'll approach and decline, oh well...ce'st la vie.\n\nIf she doesn't call, and doesn't approach directly, you should still be fine. If you waited a decent amount of time, it shouldn't be awkward if you see her again: you politely offered a date, and hopefully she was flattered but declined, and there was no outright face-to-face rejection.",
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"body": "pay by card and write your phone number down where it says \"tip\"\n\nThen go home and pay your 7billion dollar meal.",
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"body": "I'd say take a hint from Office Space. Figure out when her shift ends, go to the restaurant and finish before that time and be like \"hey, I'm gonna grab a drink over at Nearby Bar, you should join me after you're done\" or something like that.",
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"body": "I asked one of my friends at the restaurant I work at a similar question. She said the sweetest way someone had asked her out was just leaving a little message on a napkin with a tip saying \"Hey my name's X, wanna go out for a coffee sometime?\" or something. That way she felt like she could really easily say \"sure\" or \"nah\". \n\n\nPersonally when girls hit on me at work it was kind of bittersweet because you kind of have to stay quite focused and the chefs get pretty pissed if you're just standing around flirting with customers rather than doing your job. Apart from one of the chefs who would always start making humping motions from the kitchen or yell \"Get the blonde one babbied up, son\" when I came to get their orders. ",
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"body": "i'm currently a waitress. leave a short note with a generous tip; do NOT make her feel awkward by directly asking her out when she's working. it is annoying as shit. it seems like you've really thought this through, which is really sweet. definitely go with the note. and the pie? she's definitely interested. ",
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"body": "Unfortunately I have no advice. I would just like to thank you for using paragraphs and the bold isn't too hard on the eyes either. \n\n\nAlso, good luck.",
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"body": "All you have to do is get really far into her root dir. make sure you know her file tree too, servers love it when ya know how to shoot the right cmds without having to use a dir [OPTION]... [FILE]... ",
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"body": "Remove the bottom of one of those disposable cups your get postmix served in. Insert dick from bottom. Grab the waiters attention and say \"Excuse me, there seems to be a dick in my cup\"",
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"body": "Just sack up and ask her. Towards the end of your meal just say \"Hey (insert name here) I am going to (insert local watering hole here) tonight for a couple drinks. Would you like to join me?\"\r\n\r\nBam, you get an answer on the spot, you aren't sitting around wondering why she hasn't called you back or if she will and you look cool and confident in her eyes.\r\n\r\n*If she says no and is a bitch about it then fuck her you don't want to go out with her anyway. \r\n\r\n*If she respectfully declines just say \"No problem, I'll be there if you change your mind and if not I'll see you around\"\r\n\r\n*If she says she is busy tonight, ask her if another night works better or if not you can figure it out next time you come in to eat\r\n\r\n*If she says yes then congrats\r\n\r\nDamn that was easy. Maybe I should write an ebook or something. \r\n\r\nPS-It seems that you think asking her out will make you look like a creep. She will only think that if you think that. So don't think it. You're not a creep, you are a normal guy.\r\n\r\nNow go brush your hair and your teeth and go get a date",
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Just wondering, what programs do you use to record video ingame? I am looking for one | I have been looking for a program which I can use to record ingame video footage. I do know of Fraps and Gamecam (which require full versions) so I was wondering if there were more programs which could be used.
Also, I have tried WeGame before, and it worked fine except for one issue I had involving crashes whenever I tried to open the video folder containing anything I recorded. I could still view videos I had recorded in the client itself but its when I tried to open the folder directory itself that Explorer crashes would occur. | 8 | [
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"body": "The demo version of Fraps just puts a marginally-annoying watermark in the corner. Other than that, it's perfectly functional.",
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Novice guitar player looking for advice on buying another electric guitar. | So my electric... snapped. I kind of drunkenly put it against the wall before sleeping. Well it must have fallen on the floor and, wouldn't you know it, I decided to put my shoes on before going downstairs today. I deceimated that poor thing (note:turn lights when hungover, despite the pain!) Damned if I ain't an idiot... but thankfully it was just my cheapie starter guitar.
I figured I would get something halfway decent this time but I don't know any other serious guitar players and I can't really trust the people working at my local shops (or their horrible selection). So, minds of reddit MusicMakers, sound off your ideas so I can start the headhunting process!
Some quick info to help pigeon-hole me;
I do a lot of solos but I am also pulling rhythm most times.
I'd *prefer* to see guitars that don't have a floyd rose trem since my last guitar was like that and, while I liked it, found it to be a pain in the ass to tune and a pain in the ass to play decent chords with. That said, I do like the style of trem and could be open minded again.
Bands that sum up my playing style would be Queens of the Stone Age, the Kinks, Queen, Pink Floyd. I'm usually in "crunch mode," basically.
The dead girl was a super cheap, bad condition ibanez RG7. I'm more interested in six strings though. Playing 7 was tedious and I rarely got full enjoyment from it.
I'll owe you a million internet dollhairs if I pick one of the choices you give me! Maybe..
edit: Should state that my upper sending limit on this one is going to be around 600 bucks. | 6 | [
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"body": "heh i've kissed many a good guitars good bye that same way. not drunkenly either (i don't drink) just have my own clumsiness to blame :)\n\nas for guitars... well, i only buy gibsons, and lately only SG standards (have 2 of them, plus a les paul)\n\nyou can't go wrong with a gibson as far as i'm concerned. oh wait, i have my gretsch hollow body electric -- but probably not what you are looking for :)\n\n",
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"body": "If you're going to buy something new, don't go to the usual music stores. Go to someplace that has people who know what the hell they're doing. And then haggle. Never, ever pay full price for a new guitar.\r\n\r\nI would look for a used Strat or something like that. Once you find a guitar that sounds good, take it to a shop and have it set up by a professional. The will make a world of difference in the playability.\r\n\r\nAnother option is to go with a new Carvin. They have amazing bang for the buck. Carvin makes great guitars.",
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Does anyone over 18 still "play" with lego? | Or Legos if you're American. I don't, I would if I could but I'd be frowned upon as it's not a good investment according to many people. To be fair it's fairly dear now. I'm kind of looking forward to having children to buy them lego. | 34 | [
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"body": "Yes!! Always! I mainly buy them for my daughter just so I can play with them! They are the best! :) :)",
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"body": "I play with them all the time. In fact, I built one of my school projects out of Legos (Yes, I'm American)!\n\nAge: 22",
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"body": "I had a circuits take home test that I really didn't want to do, so I procrastinated like crazy. I went so far as to take out lego I hadn't played with in years. I built a totally awesome robot over the course of a couple of hours, and then I did my circuits test.\n\nI have and play a couple of the lego games (Star Wars, Batman). I want children so I have an excuse to acquire and play with lots of lego. (:",
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"body": "In my Java programming class, we \"played\" with Lego Mindstorms robots and programmed them to do tasks for a grade. A university class on robotics. \n\nSo yes.",
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"body": "http://www.brikwars.com/\nWhy create, when you can DESTROY? I always found this to be an incredibly fun and comparatively cheap alternative to most of the other tabletop wargames available. Though I can certainly appreciate the aesthetic of some properly painted miniatures, the thought of minifigs participating in the destruction of vehicles, landscape, and each other has always been amusing.",
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"body": "I'm 24. Christmas morning my gf of two weeks walked on me playing with my Star Wars Lego on my bedroom floor still wearing my pajamas. When she tells the story to friends, she never fails to mention the guilty look of my face when she caught me. =( ",
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"body": "I really want to, but the real world killed my innocent childhood imagination. The last time I played with Lego, I built a cube.",
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I recently read Snow Crash. It blew my mind. | For a parody it did an amazing job making me forget that fact. The characters, the action scenes and the whole language of the subconscious was amazing.
[Edit] Thanks for all the book suggestions, I might be busy for a while. | 211 | [
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"body": "Have you read any of Stephenson's other work yet? If not, *The Diamond Age* will probably blow your mind all over again, and *Zodiac* is lots of fun. I love just about everything else he's written too, but those three are a good start.",
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"body": "Given the state of the world currently, Snow Crash wasn't a parody - it was just absurd enough to be convincing. ",
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"body": "Snow Crash is awesome, it is true. Parody is not the right word, however.\nSatire would be appropriate, I think, but the book is not entirely satire either. Neal Stephenson is remarkable in my mind for his ability to blend satire with fast-paced story telling and real good speculative fiction all together into something (mostly) coherent.",
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"body": "Pro Tip: The 'obscure' book referenced in *Snow Crash*, Julian Jaynes *The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind*, the one with all the quotes about ancient civilizations' mind control techniques, is a [REAL book](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes) by a REAL psychologist and it actually blew *my* mind when I stumbled upon it many years after reading *Snow Crash*. It's called *Science* Fiction for a reason, you know.",
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"body": "It was an amazing book. I was a little uncomfortable with the fact that the girl was under 18 and got it on with the big dude... but hey.",
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"body": "I know it's heresy, but I disliked most of it.\r\n\r\n1) The deep structure/programming through linguistics? Bullshit Chomskyism. There's no deep structure in Sumerian, neither was it a particularly interesting language. It's just an isolate. It happens - not rarely, but it does. Basque is an isolate as well, as the the Pirahã language.\r\n\r\n1b) The cultural/historical exploration of Sumerian was all wrong - even the myths are retold badly.\r\n\r\n2) The ending felt extremely rushed.",
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"body": "I finished Anathem a few days ago. One of the greatest SF books I have had the pleasure of reading. Not that I didn't have issues with it.\n\nI've read all of Stephenson except for the Baroque Cycle and I would say Diamond Age is my favorite. Go with that one next.",
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"body": "Woah, I literally just finished Snow Crash yesterday for the first time too! \n\nI wonder, how many people saw some positive mentions of Snow Crash on reddit recently and then asked someone to get it for them for Christmas? The 'reddit effect'...\n\nAnyway, I also would like to add something to conversation: Snow Crash was originally meant to be a graphic novel (it says so in the back of my copy), which comes through very clearly in what one might call the 'kinetic' style of writing he used. I think this is why the action sequences were particularly well-done (conversely, I especially liked the \"just a chase scene\" bit).",
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"body": "I'm about half way through it (they just visited Da5id in the hospital and then Hiro went to his home and cooked some bacon).\n\nThe book is in the process of making sweet love to my cerebellum.",
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"body": "So, why are you named after Quake 1 and just now getting around to reading this? Carmack recommended this book back in '99.... :-)",
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"body": "I'm reading it at the moment (based on a recommendation from Reddit)!\n\nNow I shall ignore the rest of this thread for fear of spoilers!",
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"body": "This may be my favorite book of all time. I love Stephenson's other work but Snow Crash is such a superb mix of genius and funny.",
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"body": "It is an awesome book. Recently reread it and the writing style and richness of the story still impress me.",
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"body": "The first part is the best bit by far, but there are many other good bits. I even thought the ending was okay, though a lot of people seem to think it was weak.",
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"body": "My copy of this book is falling apart. Y.T., Uncle Enzo, L. Bob Rife...the characters in this book are unparalleled. Also, the scene where Hiro rips apart the New South Africa franchise is bad ass.",
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"body": "Go and read Hardwired right now.\n\nI am pretty sure I have chomped through all* of the cyberpunk.\nIs there a definitive list? It would be less that 200 right?\n\n\n\n",
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"body": "I read that for a Cyberpunk class I took last year! I loved it! We also read Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, River of Gods by Ian McDonald, and Neuromancer by William Gibson. I recommend... all of them.",
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"body": "While Stephenson is really entertaining, he does tend to get a bit eccentric. Diamond Age is an another fantastic read, but it gets a little obscure near the end. Much like the Macedonian vein that was put into Snow Crash. I still enjoyed both books immensely, but I thought some of the themes were a little out of place.\r\n\r\nAnyhow, if you like the Cyberpunk aspect of Snow Crash, be sure to check out William Gibson's Neuromancer trilogy. They are three of the most edgy and thrilling novels written in any genre. In addition, Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix Plus and Dan Simmon's Hyperion are both great examples of quality cyberpunk.",
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Tips for near total electronica beginner | My first ever post on reddit and I chose it to be here! Basically over the past year I've pretty much switched my listening habits from classic rock to the vast soundscape of all forms of electronica. An added attraction of electronica to me is that it seems I can get involved in actually creating the music for the first time (having literally no ability on any instrument whatsoever), I've been mucking about with all the free stuff I can find and have produced really basic stuff using things like Linux Multimedia Studio (with the zynaddsubfx plugin) and Audacity but I thought it high time I ought to actually ask things rather than figure them out myself so if anyone has anything they could help me with out of the following that'd be amazing;
- Firstly, and most noobishly, can someone explain to me the differences between various synthesisers? I'm obviously only using virtual ones on my laptop for the foreseeable future but it seems to me that just about any sound and effect can be created but is it the case that the capabilities of actual physical synthesisers differ? If so how?
- In terms of actually building a track/song, I currently tend to just experiment with a main bassline that sounds good to me then go from there throwing stuff on top. Should I focus on percussion first and build up or generally just continue experimenting, throwing things together?
- Is it acceptable to just broadly say 'electronica'? In my exploration so far I've found Aphex Twin to be my biggest inspiration, along with other Warp artists (Autechre etc.), but I also to stray from ambient through to trance and will often start out intending to make a certain track and end up doing the opposite - problem?
- Hopefully this summer I'll be building a new PC, so while I'm putting together the funds for that, is there any (entry level) software/hardware that I ought to think about investing in?
Thanks for reading, feel free to throw other tips my way!
tl;dr: What should I buy/focus on to start making electronica.
EDIT: Thanks so much for everyone's answers. I had worked out the basics of how to produce sounds and sequence them but all this information gives a fantastic insight as to how far this can be taken. I'll read up the various links and hopefully before too long I'll have a tune up on WATMM myself. | 10 | [
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"body": " - You say you have no ability on any instrument. Now, you obviously don't need to know how to play instruments, but you do need to know music theory. Think of music as a language. If you want to express your ideas, you need to know how to do it; typing in random notes very rarely works.\n\n - As far as a DAW, I recommend Ableton. It's _extremely intuitive._ After a few youtube videos, I was off making music (terrible music, but music, nonetheless) That said, you're going to need to get some VSTs. The defaults from any program (Ableton/Reason/etc) will sound extremely generic. To remedy this, you need to get: drum samples, and synths. Native Instruments makes AMAZING synths, and for drum samples, I recommend just getting odds and ends from anywhere you can until you find something good.\n\n - For creating your songs, do it however you want. There's no right or wrong way. I would suggest trying a bunch of different methods until you find what works best.\n\n - I wouldn't worry too much about labeling yourself. If you really want to, [go here](http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/) and compare your music to all the different samples they have. (Even if you don't want to, I recommend checking it out. This is an invaluable website for learning about electronic music.)\n\n - As I said before for software, I advise: Ableton, Native Instruments anything, and drum samples from wherever (Native Instruments actually has a great drum sampler, it's called [Battery](http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/battery-3/).)\n\nEDIT: Turns out Battery is only for real drums.\n\nAnyway, good luck! :)\n\n",
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"body": "A good place to learn some basic things online for free is Francis Preve's [Guide to Synthesis](http://www.beatportal.com/topics/c/guide-to-synthesis/) on Beatportal. He's a prog/tech house producer, teaches a synth/electronic electronic class, and designed a whole bunch of presets for Ableton and Korg. They're pretty basic tutorials on the main ideas to get you started. Also, to answer your question about different types of synths, the ['types of synthesis' section in this wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizer#Types_of_synthesis) is a place to start. I'd suggest learning and understanding how a subtractive synth works first, and play around with subtractive synth software (zynaddsubfx works) and then moving on from there.\n\nAlso, there's plenty of basic music theory websites online to read. A basic understanding of music theory and the physics of sound will help you out. You'll need to know things like beat, meter, scales, and chords, and things like frequency and waveform. \n\nThere's some useful advice on software here, but more importantly, use what you've got and learn with whatever you can. I just Googled Linux Multimedia Studio and there's probably plenty to learn from with it. [Here's the wiki](http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) with documentation on it and [here](http://lmms.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?title=Tested_VSTs) is a list of VST instruments that work with it. If that's what you're working with now, learn from that. Most all DAW software is very similar, and the skills you can learn on Linux Multimedia studio will be transferable to others.\n\nI'd say if you need any kind of hardware/software, first find a simple usb-MIDI keyboard that is compatible with your computer. Avoid the itch to buy expensive hardware or software until you're far enough along to know what things will or won't suit your needs. It can be easy to fall into the if-I-just-had-this-software-or-that-controller mindset.\n\nAs you learn, listen to as much electronic music as you can and start to try and identify what elements are in the electronic music you like. Electronic music is very diverse; spend a little time learning what genre/sub genre is what (but don't box yourself in to one). I'm partial to the tech house, microhouse, and minimal techno (sub)genres myself.\n\nHave fun.",
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"body": "The most important thing is cranking out songs. More than anything else, dedicate yourself to cranking out songs that have beginnings, middles and ends on a regular basis. You'll pick everything else up along the way.\n\nEveryone will have a different opinion on software, but I recommend [Reason](http://www.propellerheads.se/products/reason/) to everyone I meet. It has some extremely simple machines which are very useful when learning about how sound synthesis works, and some slightly more complicated machines for experienced sound engineers, and a wire routing metaphor that is used everywhere to build anything you want. The lack of plugins is a strength in my view--it keeps the environment pure and focused. Be sure to add [Record](http://www.propellerheads.se/products/record/) if you end up purchasing Reason.\n\nBut generally you should play with every free trial you can get your hands on. Music software is largely a matter of taste. Don't get them all at once. Get one, and when it expires move on to the next one. Keep producing. Don't accept any excuse to stop.\n\nGoogle for tutorials in each piece of software and you'll find a bunch of things you never knew had names like \"side-chain compression\" and \"filter envelope\".\n\nBut the most important thing is cranking through song after song after song.\n\nIf at any point you aren't feeling inspired, pick a random song from the Warp catalog that still makes your neck tingle and pick some isolated sound or phrase or movement of that song, replicate it without sampling it, and build a new song from that element. And then move on.\n\nThis is The Way.",
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Started watching Heroes... how the hell do they know that guy is Haitian? | He doesn't speak, so that's not it. Did they just do that because they didn't want to say "some black dude" on prime time? Enlighten me about their Haitian detecting ways. | 3 | [
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"body": "Because he's from Haiti. He does talk. He also goes back to Haiti in one episode to fight his Haitian brother or something. ",
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"body": "Because \"The Haitian\" sounds cool. From the shows perspective though, presumably they found him first in Haitia...",
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Reddit, I'm thinking of becoming an officer in the Air Force after graduating from college. Any advice? | I'm a chemical engineering major and the job market is pretty terrible right now. I think joining the Air Force as an officer and travelling around the world, meeting tons of people etc. (hopefully) and coming back to a recovered economy with great experience might be the way to go. I realize there would be downsides as well, such as the minimum required commitment and having to follow orders you might not like.
Does anyone have any insight on what the options are for an engineer in the airforce and/or what the differences are between being an officer/enlisted?
I am going to talk to a recruiter soon, but I don't think I'd get a candid answer about what it's like to serve so I'm looking for other opinions.
Thanks for any help. | 9 | [
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"body": "As a chemical engineer, you'll probably be based somewhere stateside for the majority of your career. I'm sure you'll have the opportunity to travel over seas, but I imagine you'll be working in R&D and Development, and those facilities are obviously, well guarded within our borders. \nYou'll do better as an officer than enlisted; so don't even think about enlisting. Talk to a recruiter, be sure he's clear you want to be an officer...you may want to look into ROTC at your local college? That would be a good opportunity to get in the military early, and let Uncle Sam pay some of your schooling.\n\nAs far as \"following orders you don't like\" I've got news for you, you'll be doing that no matter where you work, military or not...and then just wait until you're married. Don't get me started.\n\nGood luck!\n",
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Who's never lied or even bent the truth in a reddit post? | A lot of the posts in this subreddit asks some pretty cool, and personal at times, questions. The responses people give are pretty incredible. Almost too incredible, such that I question whether or not people are just inventing crazy stories, or if reddit really is populated entirely by clones of The Most Interesting Man in the World.
Also, if you have lied on a reddit post, why? | 16 | [
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"body": "I have never lied, on this account or any other account. I have given my opinion though, which some may view as a \"lie\" because they so fiercely disagree with it.",
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"body": "I've never lied in anything I've written online. What you see is what you get. Besides, life is strange enough.",
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Classics that the average person knows of but hasn't read... | In a bid to get out the cycle of picking up whatever random trash my parents had just read, I have decided to actively start reading classics that even as kids one knew the general premise of yet had never read. I'm just about to finish Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' and my word it's been fantastic. So my basic question is what other books are out there that everyone *knows* but might not have read. For starters, I'm going to use the BBC's Big Read list and see what catches my eye, but just wondered what reddit thought :) | 16 | [
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"body": "I am in the middle of Don Quixote. And its pretty damn funny.\n\nI had read parts of it as short stories in school, and never really realized it was such a large novel. I have to ask though, why is it always the Chapter about the windmills that is featured in literature books? Or was it just the literature books I happened to get while in school.",
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"body": "* Sophocles's Oedipus cycle\n* Dante's *Inferno*\n* *The Prince*, by Machiavelli\n* *Gulliver's Travels*, by Jonathan Swift\n* *Faust*, by Goethe\n* *Moby-Dick*, by Herman Melville\n* *Candide*, by Voltaire\n* *1984*, by George Orwell (ok, many people have read this one, but a lot more people reference it as a generic concept, as compared to actually reading it)",
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"body": "I'll recommend:\n\n* *The Sound and the Fury*, William Faulkner\n* *Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*, James Joyce\n* *Naked Lunch*, William S. Burroughs\n* *White Noise*, Don Delillo\n* *The Sun Also Rises*, Ernest Hemingway\n* *Moby-Dick*, Hermann Melville\n",
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"body": "* *Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley \n* *Heart of Darkness* by Joseph Conrad \n* *One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest* by Ken Kesey \n* *Slaughterhouse Five* by Kurt Vonnegut \n* *Catch 22* by Joseph Heller \n \nany of the stuff that typically gets read in high school that you either missed out on or were supposed to read, but didn't really",
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"body": "**The Count of Monte Cristo** by Alexandre Dumas. By far my favorite classic novel.\r\n\r\nAlso, if you never read them in school:\r\n\r\n**Of Mice And Men** by John Steinbeck\r\n\r\n**Animal Farm** by George Orwell\r\n\r\n**Lord of the Flies** by William Golding\r\n\r\n**Hamlet** by William Shakespeare",
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"body": "To Kill A Mocking Bird -- not sure if it counts as a classic but it is fairly old and most school-age kids have been threatened with it in their English class (and will therefore know about it). Surprisingly this is the book that kicked me off reading and as such I'd thoroughly recommend it.",
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"body": "I tried reading War & Peace once. I don't know if I was too young for it or what, but I bravely struggled halfway through, then gave up when I realized I still didn't care about anyone in the book.",
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"body": "The correct answer is The Brothers Karamazov. I haven't met many people that have read it to completion, but plenty of people know the story and have an understanding of why it is important.",
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[TOMT] An old N64 game that I used to play | 2 games if I may:
**Game 1**
Now I remember playing this around 10 years ago, but don't hold me to that. It was a game about a guy on a set sized board, like a top down, or slightly not quite top down, and you'd walk around avoiding monsters or aliens or robots, or shooting or killing them some how.
You were always on the same sized level and they'd just add more alien/monster things.
Each of these monsters had a set ability.
You'd generally progress through the levels quickly.
I remember it being science-y.
I remember that it had a somewhat beepy sound scheme.
I remember the colour scheme including alot of purple, perhaps the board was purple.
And you were a little faceless character.
Dr. comes to mind, but that could be completely wrong.
Now I can't say that any of this is correct, but these are the fragments I remember in my head.
**Game 2**
Somewhat simpler, another N64 game.
You rotate the world and try and get to the core to win.
It was something to do with either tetris or blocks.
**EDIT: Both solved by the delectable zhx, I love him.**
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Thanks in advance. | 7 | [
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"body": "I'm going to say [Robotron 64](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiqLonfWZ60) and [Tetrisphere](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o3-hl3nr0Q).",
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Advice needed: How do I get involved in advocacy groups for women's rights and health? | After some time spent reflecting I've decided that the career path that would make me most fulfilled is a position advocating for women's and girls' rights and health. I don't know where to start, though - I know of a few organizations (the International Women's Health Coalition, Girls Inc, RH Reality Check, The Lower East Side Girls Club, etc), but I don't know how to start. Most of these organizations' sites have only the standard rhetoric on how to "get involved" - write letters! Donate money! Become a fan on Facebook! - but I want to do more.
IWHC has job openings, but they all stipulate that you must have a background in women's health or non-profit groups. The LES Girls' Club has volunteer opportunities, but they fill up months in advance (not something I should be complaining about!). So where do I start? What are some other organizations that have volunteer opportunities or job openings?
I live in NYC, if that helps.
Edit: cross-posted to /r/nyc. | 6 | [
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"body": "I'm also interested in this. I'm hoping to defect from public accounting into a position with an NGO or non-profit, then become part of the strategic management. I'm not sure how feasible that is, and I need to be an activist in other ways to shore up my experience.",
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"body": "Here we have a Haven House that is always looking for people to watch after the girls. The application process might be a bit involved, these are neglected girls after-all. I imagine just having someone able to do a week-end every now and then would be nice; I imagine there's something similar in your area; it's ran by United Way.\n\nNot sure it's an 'advocacy' group, but I'd say it fits in with Women's health.",
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Finding jobs right out of college as an ECE? | I'm an EE senior graduating in June and my school's career fairs tend to cater more towards I-banking and consulting, which is not what I want to do right out of college (or ever).
I'm at an east coast school, but want to look for west coast jobs. What's the best way to find recent college grad level jobs in the ECE community?
Thanks. | 9 | [
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"body": "Besides the obvious stuff (posting your resume everywhere, attending job fairs, etc.) I also recommend targeting individual companies that you've researched. Spend time finding companies located in a part of the country that you'd like to work and that are doing the things you'd like to be doing. \n\nAlso, don't just consider the big companies with household names. There are hundreds of small companies out there doing amazing things that nobody has heard of. You're lucky to be graduating at a time when every single one of them is going to have web presence of some sort. \n\nI've interviewed and hired young engineers before. Many don't know what they want. If a young engineer discovered our company on his/her own and applied for a job because they were convinced that they wanted to be working for us, we would probably *create* a job for them.\n",
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"body": "I got my job by sending applications directly to several companies that I wanted to work for, with personalized letters explaining who I was and what my interests / aspirations were. I also made a resume website that showed my portfolio of projects that I worked on for classes and that had a direct link to a .pdf of my resume. Make it as easy as possible for people to find out who you are and what your skills are.\n\nAny company willing to hire a recent college grad fully understands that there will be a learning curve involved, so it is more important to show that you are a fast learner and dedicated worker than it is to have a vast background of experiences. Being personable and showing that you have a willingness to fit into the culture of a company can go a long way as well. Companies are not just hiring you to do work, because they have to live with and interact with you as well.\n\nIt may not be as useful since you are trying to move across the country, but ask your professors for contact information of students that graduated a few years before you. Many of them will have jobs or know people in the same fields that you want to work for, and companies especially like to hire from colleges whose graduates they have been happy with in the past.\n\nAnother online resource for tech job postings would be dice.com, but this may not be as good as I remember it given the current job market. \n\nBest of luck to you!",
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"body": "Yes, this is from my site, but I've written about it before and I don't want to write it all here. I would direct you to the LinkedIn thing (#6). People always say \"Networking\" is the way to get a job but they never friggin say how! The LinkedIn thing is one way how: \n\nhttp://chrisgammell.com/2009/03/03/squeaky-wheels-get-the-job-hunting-tips/\n\nGood luck and let me know if you need any help.",
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Anyone else have a hell of a time putting the bolt back into the remington 870? | The title says it all. I try to decompress the slide block and it still takes me 10 attempts, and then randomly it will work one time and I dont know what I did. What am I doing wrong? There are two slide blocks correct? on both sides?
I just received my ATI folding stock today and front grip. Neither products fit my rem 20 gauge, had to file the stock attachment to get it to fit. Then I struggled with the synthetic front grip, took me 4 attempts to get it to work properly. Package came with no instructions, ended up I had to rip all the plastic ribs off, and cut the attchment thingy so it wouldn't rub against the barrel.. | 7 | [
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"body": "I was just taking my new 870 apart for the first time and had trouble with getting the bolt in, too. Here's what I discovered:\n\nThere are right and left latches that you need to depress to get it back in. The manual will tell you do to it this way: 1. Slide bolt in until it is stopped by right latch. 2. Press right latch. 3. Slide further in until stopped by left latch. 4. Press left latch. 5. Continue sliding in.\n\nWhere I had trouble was with steps 3 and 4 - I'd get in past the right latch and slide it back until it hit the left latch, but at that point I couldn't get the left latch to depress. I finally realized that to make things work I had to get it past the right latch, as the instructions say, but then, instead of sliding it all the way back to the left latch, leave it somewhere BETWEEN the right and left latch - this allowed me to depress the left latch and get it all the way in.\n\nPerhaps this is the same problem you where having.",
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Question from a noob : When you want to reproduce an object from real life (a person, your pet, a coffee grain, whatever), how do you proceed form step 1 to rendering? What are the steps you generally follow? | This is not a tutorial request. I am currently reading [Blender : From noob to Pro](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro) and I just wanted to know the general habits of real pros. | 8 | [
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Does anyone else feel bad for Thorim? | I dunno what it is, maybe the long heartfelt quest chain to attune with Sons of Hodir, but I never liked having to actually kill Thorim. It sort of felt like I was betraying someone who thought I was a friend. | 9 | [
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It may not seem like it, but in the long run, Conan won this one, in fact, he couldn't lose.
| This all started 5 years before Leno gave up the tonight show. In an effort to avoid the crap from the Leno/Letterman affair NBC cemented a deal for Conan to take over.
Leno was fine with this at first, but as time went on and he remained at #1 against Letterman. It was obvious that he didn't like the deal and wanted to stay on for longer.
Leno probably pitched the 10pm idea and NBC ran the numbers. It was all win-win from their point of view. They couldn't possibly see how it would eventually lead to their undoing. (see below) Even if Leno did piss poor, they'd still save money against the money they spent developing hour long dramas for the same spot. Plus, the Tonight Show cash cow could always keep them going. What they didn't count on was how it affected the affiliates local nightly news ratings. The economy of a couple of years ago could've weathered this. Not now though. When 200+ NBC affiliate stations threatened to pull the Leno show and stick on re-runs of Law and Order NBC had to do act. You can't charge the same for ads that go out 200 less affiliate stations, cutting the meager profit to unacceptable levels. The Peacock was already wounded, this could be deadly.
Getting Leno back to 11:30 was the only way NBC could see to save the network. This was going to happen no matter what. The best predictor for the future is past performance. Leno had 12 of his 17 years at #1 in that time slot. From NBC's point of view, dropping Leno and continuing the incubation of Conan was an investment they couldn't afford.
Why didn't Leno back out honorably? NBC had two things to convince Leno not to bail. They had his dream job to give back to him, The Tonight Show. That's almost enough there. The other thing was that if he didn't come back, it was very possible, in the short term at least, a lot of people at NBC, his own staff from the Leno show, and connected peoples would lose their jobs from the financial stress the company would face without him coming back. That's powerful stuff.
This sets up for the undoing. The Tonight Show is pretty deeply scarred by NBC attempting to 'fix' things. People are pissed all around and a lot of people think Jay should've bowed out and let the new guy have his chance. We know why Jay might've stayed against what looks like the honorable choice. But a lot of people might not see it that way. Jay will probably have trouble getting guests, at least for a while. With the bad publicity and the lackluster talent showing up on the Tonight Show the ratings will suffer. The problem NBC wanted to solve won't be solved and may worsen.
As NBC continues to deal with the challenges of new media, a tough economy and an emaciated cash cow they could find themselves in serious trouble over the next few years. Survival will depend on how many affiliates hold on while they hope for things to get better. THAT will depend on if NBC can give us something to watch.
At the very least, the most likely outcome, one no one wanted to see, is the Tonight Show may not be viable as a franchise anymore. A truly sad ending to such a great institution.
If NBC could've found the money and balls to keep Conan in the Tonight Show seat and let Leno go, even at this point, they probably would've ended up better off in the long run. Conan would probably be #2 to Dave for a while, but NBC would make a hell of a lot more money than they were when Leno was at 10pm. Conan would've built his audience and continued being the host of the Tonight Show.
But now Conan is leaving. Where ever he goes he'll have a built in audience. Without the weight of the Tonight Show on him it will allow him to take chances and grow. He'll attract more viewers and possibly usurp Leno and Letterman creating a new franchise that will exist into the age of new media.
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"body": ">At the very least, the most likely outcome, one no one wanted to see, is the Tonight Show may not be viable as a franchise anymore. A truely sad ending to such a great institution.\n\nI wrote something a lot longer, but I'll sum it up with this. This is the equivalent of a steroid scandal in Baseball. Yes, it hurts. Yes, we are disappointed. But it alone is not enough to destroy the American pastime of watching late-night talk shows. Also, like baseball, this whole snafu is also the result of extreme competitiveness. Tonight Show is an institution that most comedians would give their right nut to host, so of course there will be power struggles when comes time the changing of the guard. Remember what happened with Leno and Letterman almost 2 decades ago? Most people either don't, or don't care. So long as the show is funny, it will prevail. And with the caliber of talent vying for the spot, I don't see how it couldn't be successful.",
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Can anyone recommend a good book on Medieval History and culture? | I am not usually a history buff, but I recently started taking a fencing class and most of my fellow fencers are really interested in Medieval times and the Arthurian legends. I would love to have a good book for someone who doesn't know a lot about Medieval history, yet is seriously interested in reading about it in depth. | 23 | [
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"body": "I second the Cantor (readable top noch scholar) but would take a pass on the Manchester (shoddy research)\n\nFor a taste of more everyday life try \"Life in a Medieval Castle\" by Gies or \"A Day in a Medieval City\" by Frugoni (lots a great pictures!).\n\nGo for a modern prose version of some the Arthurian Romances (based on Troyes or Mallory) as well as Sir Gawain & the Green Knight and maybe Heaney's Beowulf \n\nIn a literary vein try \"In the Name of the Rose\" by Umberto Eco. Monastic life meets murder mystery",
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"body": "['The Civilization of the Middle Ages'](http://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Middle-Ages-Completely-Expanded/dp/0060925531) by Norman F. Cantor\n\n",
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"body": "If it's Arthurian legends and chivalry they're into, read the real thing! Try \"Tristan and Isolde\", a true medieval romance that will illuminate so much about medieval culture that a history book just can't.",
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"body": "Joseph Gies did some great work with Life in a Medieval Village, Castle, and City (3 separate books, not too long, but rich in detail) and his wife, Frances Gies, did an excellent one on family and home life called Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages.\n\nI've read them all... :)",
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"body": "I have personally not yet read this book, but it comes very highly recommended by one of the few people whose literary tastes align with mine. It is called, \"A World Lit Only By Fire.\"\nhttp://www.amazon.com/World-Lit-Only-Fire-Renaissance/dp/0316545562/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263528217&sr=1-1",
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"body": "I would recommend [Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1550: Age of Discretion](http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Medieval-Europe-300-1550-Discretion/dp/0415346991/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263556219&sr=1-12). I'm a history student and this is the book we used in our first year. It gives a very good overview of medieval history.\n",
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"body": "Huizinga's *Waning of the Middle Ages*, anything by Henri Pirenne or Carlo Ginzburg. All masters. Utterly epic. ",
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I think I'm doing acid for my first time in a couple days... One or two hits? And what to DO!? | Everyone says one hit your first time just to get used to it and so it doesn't overwhelm you too bad too fast... am I being stupid for wanting to go for two or honestly will I probably be fine? I've broken through on Salvia before, and I know it's completely different (from everything not just acid), but after something like that I feel like I can handle something I'm very well familiar with (knowledge-wise), like acid. Other than weed and alcohol, I used to screw around with DXM. That's about it other than blow this one time...
So, what do you think? And also, what are your absolute favorite things to do/watch/listen to while on acid? What made your first awesome trip awesome?
Also, what about bad trips? I think that I almost wouldn't mind falling into one just because of the retrospect I'd have after it's all over. (I know I'd probably wish I was dead during it, if I didn't already feel like I was. I just still feel like I'd have the self-sustainability to make it through one the best someone can, even if that isn't much. I don't even know). I know I'll still be able to pull something great out of this trip, whether it turns for the worse or not. However, I'm a pretty secure and very optimistic guy, so, I'm not expecting or even thinking about a bad trip at all... if it happens it will totally catch me by surprise. But we'll see what happens. Thanks for the tips! | 8 | [
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"body": "Take 2 tabs. I've never done 1 at a time, so I don't know how strong it'll be.\n\nDo it with other people. It's a lot more fun if you have other people tripping with you to interact with.\n\nFind a comfortable environment, like someone's apartment - somewhere where you're in control of your surroundings. \n\nAvoid too much stimulation that's out of your control. It's not like weed, a party or something can be overwhelming.\n\nMake sure you're feeling well beforehand. Discomfort can take lots of forms under acid, so you want to try to avoid it. I've also read some stuff about malnutrition contributing to bad trips. Don't know if it's true, but it's worth getting a decent meal and hydrating beforehand.\n\nDon't feel obligated to do the stuff you see on TV. It doesn't effect everyone the same way, just do what you feel like. \n\nExplore the outdoors. It's awesome. Just don't go alone and avoid crowded places.",
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Today at the grocery store when I swiped my card
it said "Bad read... try again." | And I replied "it's not like I swiped a Stephanie Meyer book!"
The lady at the register high fived me. | 38 | [
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"body": "and everyone broke into unnecessary song, and at the very end of the song/dance number you get the girl.\n\nFin",
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Reddit, a message from my Haitian wife: "Thank you." | My wife is from Haiti, and still has not heard from most of her relatives there. She is a wreck of nerves right now. I myself am at a loss really as to how to give her some comfort, but I think she appreciates my quiet presence as we take in the news coverage. Tonight as I was browsing Reddit, she glanced her flag out of the corner of her eye. I never mentioned it to her before, as it didn't seem to me that something like a logo would help her feel better. But in that moment she drew a sharp breath and exclaimed "Reddit has our flag?!!" Looking at her with her mouth wide open and her eyes full of excitement you'd think she had just won the lottery. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why she was so giddy until her next question: "Have they ever had Jamaica's flag??!" (I'm from Jamaica.. we compete a lot on national pride.) I answered that I don't think they ever did, and she let out the happiest, heartiest laugh I've heard from her since this whole tragedy occurred. She is generally a happy person, and seeing her laugh again, for the brief moment that it lasted, was indescribably satisfying.
And so I am passing on her message. She would like to thank you that Haiti's flag made it on to Reddit before Jamaica's flag did. I know that given the circumstances, it is a frivolous type of thing to celebrate. But I figure given the circumstances, I am fine with letting her have it. I also know that you guys have done so much more than change your logo. We've used the geolocating resources you posted, and I've donated via the link from the blog (awesome job BTW). But it was the logo that brought us that lovely respite from the anxiety and the worry. So I guess I want to thank you too.
TL;DR - My Haitian wife who has been beside herself since the earthquake hit found a moment of unexpected levity after seeing her national flag in the Reddit logo.
EDIT: typo.
EDIT: Holy crap she's on the phone to her sister as I type!! They are speaking in Creole I don't know what's going on but so far I gather that her sister and two of her nieces are fine!!! Will continue to update as she takes breaths between the tears and the talking to fill me in. There is way more family to account for but she is just glad to hear from someone at the moment.
EDIT: Her immediate family (two siblings) as well as several cousins and nieces and nephews have been accounted for and have little or no injuries, besides being shaken up. One cousin and one niece still have not been heard from, but most of her family is OK!!
EDIT: So far there's no word on the cousin or niece, but after having spoken to most of her family she is a different person. It's hard to explain the depth of the relief, the whole house feels lighter. I've shown her your comments and your well-wishes, and she's amazed. She really thought this site that constantly makes me laugh at jokes she doesn't understand was juvenile and silly, but now she sees you as a community of compassionate people. Fine, now that she has seen your humanity she is even *more* baffled at the whole narwhal thing, but hey, at least she knows we care. Thanks for the outpouring, Reddit. You guys rock.
EDIT: I just got home and my wife let me know that she was able to get through to the other cousin and niece. All the family that she holds near and dear are alive and accounted for. She was half-way numb with the sheer shock that everyone is fine, but that didn't last very long. Her country is still devastated, but at least she has some peace of mind regarding her family. We count ourselves as very very fortunate. Thanks again to all of you for your support and well-wishes. | 151 | [
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"body": "I'd just replaced the Haitian flag logo (it's been up nearly 2 days now) with the default when qgyh2 forwarded me this link. Now I've put it back up.\n\nI can't tell you how pleased I am to know that it made her laugh. May she, and the rest of you, enjoy it for another day.\n\nAnd you're right, we never did have a Jamaican flag on the logo (tho, we did have [all the nations represented in the last World Cup](http://s3.amazonaws.com/sp.reddit.com/archive2006B.html) in logos, Jamaica wasn't one of them).",
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"body": "I hope things work out OK for your wife and her family. My ex is Haitian-American, and thankfully most of his family are here in the US. He's still trying to get in touch with his sister, though. From what he's heard she's sleeping outside because like many others who were lucky enough to still have homes, she's worried that if she goes inside there might be more aftershocks that could destroy the house while she's inside. Let's hope there will be no more.",
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"body": "To give it the all and expect nothing back,\r\nTo help out ultimately and leave everything intact,\r\nTo inspire the whole world to do the same,\r\nWithout whose collaboration we are all but to blame.\r\n\r\nIn times like these more or less I wish your family those alike none but the best.",
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"body": "Thanks for sharing how the reddit alien's Haitian flag brought your wife a light hearted moment during a very stressful time.\n\nI cannot imaging what she is experiencing. Please give your wife a hug and tell her it's from a reddit friend.\n\nSending warm thoughts to both of you as you deal with the aftermath of this horrific occurrence.\n\n",
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"body": "I think we all wish we could do a lot more.\n\nYour thanks is very moving. Even though i personally had nothing to do with the flag your wife's reaction is very touching.",
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"body": "I've donated for the relief effort and will continue to do so as additional funds will be needed (I'm sure). I'm happy that your wife was able to smile for a brief moment with the Haitian flag displayed on Reddit and only hope that her family is found safe. ",
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"body": "Aw, hey, that's got to be a great feeling to hear her talk to her sister. My best to you and your wife and the extended family. And to the nation of Haiti. I hope that you hear good news on the cousin and niece. \n\nLike many, I did the little I could and donated. It feels impotent, but is the best one like me can do from thousands of miles away.\n",
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"body": "Please accept my best wishes to you wife's family and to your wife. Please let us know if there is anything more we can do.",
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"body": "Oh dude, glad to hear your wifes family is being found and are okay so far- I hope the rest are also found quickly, and in good health. ",
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"body": "I've donated through Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders. I wish there was something more 'hands on' I could do. I hate feeling this helpless. She has our deepest sympathy.",
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"body": "The images from Haiti are sickening and horribly sad and makes me feel like a total dumbass for bitching about a bad day at work. \n\n",
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"body": "hate you for making me cry but really want to hug you for sharing this. i hope the next few days finds everyone she loves safe and sound. \nbe well. ",
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"body": "My thoughts are with your wife and her family and I hope she gets good news about her other cousin and niece soon. Wish I were able to do more personally at this point to help Haiti than sending money and sentiments. ",
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Are there any sites that recommend games based on games I've liked before? Sort of like Amazon's 'people who bought this also bought...'? | Do any gaming websites offer such a service? I've been running out of games to play, i'm just not sure what games I might like. I put up a post on reddit and asked for recommendations based on a game I had just played and got some great suggestions (I had just finished the newest Settlers, so people suggested Anno 1404 and Stronghold 2, both of which were great).
I don't want to make a new reddit post every time I need a new game to play, so does such a service exist and work?
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"body": "IGN has a feature like this built into their user game collection database. I typically keep abreast of gaming news and seek out info on games myself, so I don't use it much, but it does seem to recommend games I already know about and plan on picking up, or games I would have picked up had I not known more about them.",
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Told myself 'I am quitting smoking'...that was last Friday. | This seems like it's about the billionth time I've tried but something feels different this time. I plan on starting a significant cardio improvement regimen on Monday....trying to keep from drinking to the point where it goes from 'I would kill someone for a cigarette' to 'I would literally nuke an entire continent for a cigarette' and just taking it one day at a time...so far so good. | 8 | [
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"body": "Do it dude! I quit today (Thursday). Almost the end of my first day. Doing okay but I probably would trade my left testicle for a cigarette. Of course, not the right one.",
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Major realization today... | I want a divorce.
For the first time ever, I told someone about it. This has been a long time coming, but today I realized that this is truly how I feel.
My husband is not a horrible person, but he refuses to discuss our relationship. I have so many hopes and goals for our family, but he is content to move in a horizontal line forever. I've told him, point blank, that I'm not happy. He basically told me that he's happy - so it's my problem, not his. I've asked him to do things with me, take me out, have some fun...and he just wants to stay home, order out food, and watch TV. I want some sort of spark - anything - and it's not there.
We've been together for 10 years, and I just feel taken for granted. The way he talks to me, and sometimes treats me, (I was told to "get out of his way" and pushed the other day) just makes me feel so ordinary. A man doesn't treat the woman that he loves and cares about that way. I don't want to sound conceited, but I'm an attractive person, I'm funny, I'm caring, I'm a great Mom, I keep an awesome house (the apartment is clean enough to eat off the floors)...but you would never know that from him. Last month, he told me that I looked sexy, and it nearly took the breath out of me. He hasn't gave me a sincere compliment in over a year. I need some sort of recognition.
I have some guilt over this issue. I love him, but I'm nowhere near in love with him. I hate to picture him alone, but I hate to picture myself alone and in a loveless marriage. I'm still young. I just think, how long can this go on? In another 10 years, do I want to be sitting around, still unhappy? (but just more bitter) At what point does my happiness come first?
Ok, long vent. I'm not going to make any rash decisions, because I do have 2 children to think about...but they have to feel this, too. I know it's not healthy to see us always arguing. I went through that with my parents. It was not a good situation.
I didn't get married thinking that I would give up, but I think I give up. | 22 | [
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"body": "Tell him, \"We're going to see either a marriage counselor or a divorce lawyer next week. Take your pick.\"\r\n\r\nI don't usually recommend ultimatums, but he sounds like he's married to inertia rather than to you. Maybe that will shock him into doing something to save his marriage. Honestly, I don't think he could possibly be happy, even though he tells you he is. Maybe he's lost touch with his own happiness so much that he's mistaken being moderately comfortable for being happy. Unless he's a very disordered human being, he can't possibly be enjoying living with someone who is miserable.\r\n\r\nIf he picks the divorce lawyer, ask for a trial separation first. Try to get him to move out and find his own apartment or stay with friends for a while. If he won't go, then you should move out with the kids. I'm not one to say mom is always the better parent, but in this case it sounds like he probably isn't equipped to be a single father. Maybe being without you for a while can convince him to value his marriage.\r\n\r\nIf the trial separation doesn't convince him to start trying and going to regular marital counseling with you, then make the divorce final. Get counseling for you and for the kids no matter what else you do. They'll need help coping with this. Divorce is hard on kids, but it's better than watching their parents model a miserable and borderline abusive relationship.",
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"body": "Good for you!\n\nIt looks like you have thought this through pretty well. I'd go through some formal counseling though, before you abandon things, for your husband and childrens' sake.\n\nNo need to present it as \"I'm thinking of divorce lets do counseling,\" maybe just like \"I think we should see a counselor,\" and if he strongly disagrees and has no interest, then just start divorce proceedings on your own.",
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"body": "He really needs to understand that your happiness IS his problem. I would recommend going to a counselor by yourself. The counselor may be able to give you ideas as to how to better communicate with your husband. If he still refuses to acknowledge the fact that he needs to help you be happy, I would recommend talking with a lawyer first, and also seeking mediation for the divorce. It can save a LOT of money if the two of you can amicably figure out how to seperate assets and custody.",
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"body": "I would suggest that you keep trying to communicate with him before you take any action. Continue being direct and tell him that the lack of romance is really taking a toll on you and you are seriously considering parting ways if he is unwilling to put any work into reviving the relationship. Sometimes us guys can be pretty hardheaded and stubborn. Let him know you feel yourself slipping out of love with him and ask him why it doesn't seem like it is an important topic to discuss. Perhaps you two have fallen into an unhealthy routine or maybe he's in a rut himself. Ask yourself this: do you feel like it is worth salvaging if things do improve or is it just too late for that?\n\nIn a 10-year relationship it's pretty natural to get complacent or to take someone for granted. I was your husband in my previous relationship but I didn't really recognize it until it was too late. I didn't push or tell her to get out of my way or say \"I'm happy, this is your problem\" but I sort of took her for granted and the romance died. She only spoke about her unhappiness once and wasn't very direct or open about the things that were displeasing her. A month later and she walked out for good on a nearly nine year relationship. She said she felt that way for a while but I really had no clue about it until it was too late. It really blindsided me. As long as you've given him ample warning/chances to improve, I'd say go out and find your own happiness. Just make sure you've done everything possible to save your marriage beforehand. If you two can manage to overcome this obstacle imagine how much stronger your relationship would be and imagine how awesome that would be for the kids to see. If not, oh well, he'll figure it out when you're gone.",
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"body": "You're at the point to consider counseling, not a divorce. If you need to threaten divorce in order to get him into counseling, fine; but get into counseling.\n\nAnd do not *ever* assume that divorce will be better for the kids than watching the two of you argue. You need to take full responsibility for any decision to separate - you are doing it for *you*, and you alone. And maybe that's what you need to do, but using the children's good as even a partial justification will mess you up and mess them up.",
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"body": "I don't have much advice to offer, but I do want to say that I don't think you should look at this as you giving up. Giving up implies (to me anyway) that you lack the motivation to do what's necessary. You're looking for a quick fix, a magic cure, whatever, and when that doesn't happen you just say, \"Oh well.\" You haven't done that. You've done everything you can do, but your husband is not willing to work with you. He is the one who is giving up. The only way you're giving up is if you stay with him because then you are giving up your own happiness. You've recognized that you're in a situation that makes you unhappy, you've tried to fix it. Now recognize that sometimes things can't be fixed and make the decision to do what will make you happy.\n\nGood luck. ",
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"body": "Not to shift blame to you, but is there anything you have done in the past to make him resent you or feel anger or lack of respect for you?",
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A new pup and an inexperienced owner | A couple days ago, my mother surprised me with a white pitbull, with brown specks of fur scattered haphazardly about his rear. Originally, I was worried: my family isn't the best with animals. However, the puppy quickly gained my affection. My girlfriend and I have named him Taft, after the president. :-)
So, dog owners of reddit, what advice would you recommend on raising this puppy the right way?
Also, two more things:
* One - The owners gave us Taft at a very young age from what I hear: he is a bit over four weeks old. How can I ease his transition from siblings and a mother to nearly nothing, save for an older dog and a few people in a house?
* Two - [here is Taft](http://imgur.com/G4qxa)
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"body": "Cutest thing ever. Get [Ian Dunbar](http://www.ted.com/talks/ian_dunbar_on_dog_friendly_dog_training.html)'s [*Before and After Getting Your Puppy*](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577314557/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1888047003&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=03Q2FPWWY9NV3ZNR6WHJ). He talks about socialization - something your dog will be lacking.\n\nWeeks 4-8 are spent playing with litter mates and learning bite inhibition and doggy communication. Dogs removed to early are at risk of developing fearful behaviors (shyness or aggression) and biting too hard. For now let him bite you when he plays with you and yell or yelp \"Owww!\" when he bites at all hard. (This is what his litter mates would be doing.)\n\nIt's important that a pitbull learns bite inhibition! Find a puppy class too. Remember that *anyone* can call themselves a dog trainer, don't pick someone who'd put a choke or prong collar on a puppy! (Want to teach the pup to walk off leash? Find a safe area, put the dog down and walk away without looking back. The pup will follow - he is too young and scared to be alone!)",
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"body": "Awesome dog. I've got a pit that is very similar. Good name too. \nPretty much most regular dog training things can be learned from googling around - I'll offer some pit-specific advice. \n\nSocialize him with kids, cats, big dogs, little dogs, etc. Get him used to these things so he doesn't freak out when he sees them or when a kid comes up and is petting him wrong. I've had my cat killed by a neighbors pit that was otherwise wonderful. \nExercise is important for discipline. Take him on walks AT LEAST every other day, if you don't have a yard you need to walk several times each day. Exercise is good for his body, but more importantly (to me) he is more mentally engaged and there is good opportunity to exercise many commands while walking (sit, wait, okay, off, etc.). Dogs' behavior changes for the worst after a lack of outside-the-home exercise. \nTake him to the dog park weekly at least. \nDestroy any aggression when it surfaces. Flip him on his back and stand over him when any snapping or aggressive behavior occurs. I wasn't a believer until I saw a fellow pit owner do this and it is effective. \nLearn to recognize the difference between actual aggression and warning gestures. \nOnly yell at the dog when it is an emergency. The point of yelling is to show him the shit just got real. If you are always yelling, the dog will brush it off. My girlfriend is guilty of this, and the dog is slow to respond when she yells. \nLEARN HOW TO DISABLE YOUR DOG. Pits are wonderful, but they focus on things like no other dog does. It's a double edged sword - the focus is great when training. However, the focus is what gives them a bad name. Watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXiO_duXa5A&feature=related) video. See the black pit holding on the whole time? Learn to break that. These dogs are INCREDIBLY strong, especially in the jaws. Lock jaw is bullshit - they are focused and strong, that's it. break this by cutting off their air. Feel behind your dog's nose, right behind the nostrils. Press your fingers down to cut off the airflow. That will force them to open their mouth, if only for a second. Practice that and make sure you understand it. \nDon't panic if your dog gets in a fight. Get pissed and handle it. You aren't allowed to panic if you own this dog. Think about your action plan if your dog is attacked or if it attacks another dog or kid. \nCrate training can be very beneficial for you and your dog - it's not for everyone but I've found it to be important for mine. \nDon't waste your money on any other harnesses, haltis, etc. Don't bother with a pinch or choke collar, they don't work on these dogs. Use a Sensation brand harness. They are in the $30 range, but it is the best $30 you will ever spend on your dog. The harness pulls the dog's front legs back when the pull, making it impossible for the dog to actually pull you. When I go to a choke or regular collar my dog will pull until she's weezing, but the sensation completely stops the pulling and still lets her walk without a problem. \nTeach your dog some \"cute\" tricks, like \"shake\" and \"roll over\". It will help you disarm people that are so worried about your dog being near them, specifically family members and LANDLORDS. \nOn that note: Landlords will give you a HARD time about having a pit. You'll have a hard time renting anywhere. Some things I've learned: Call pits \"[American Staffordshire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Staffordshire_Terrier)\" - pit bulls are not an AKC recognized breed. Am Staff is, and most people don't know what it is but it sounds like a nice dog so they don't think twice about it, whereas \"pit Bull\" on a rental application generally ends in immediate denial. If they still won't let you have it, offer to get renter's insurance to cover the dog in event of attack. Also, get your dog Canine Good Citizenship certified. Basically a test saying that your dog is a good dog that is properly disciplined. Usually helps insurance companies and landlords accept your dog. \nFeed good food, especially now. Most health problems are food related. \nI've owned a lab, a small terrier, an Australian shepherd, and a pit, and the pit is easily the most excellent of them all. They are so freakin easy to train. \nHad enough yet? \n[Obligatory dog pic.](http://imgur.com/M9Kxp.jpg) \n[Looking meaner.](http://imgur.com/EeHJZ.jpg)\n\n\n",
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"body": "Wow thats early to be separated from the litter. Try to get something familiar to him like a blanket from the breeder. The scent from something familiar could help. A ticking clock wrapped in the blanket can simulate a mothers heartbeat at night. You can go to the pet store and buy special puppy food for him. His immune system is still vulnerable because he is so young. Take him to the vet to get him checked out, immunized and dewormed.",
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"body": "Has he been weaned properly from his mother? You will need to find that out and do some research about when pups are normally weaned. If he hasn't been, you may need to feed him some formula with a bottle or eyedropper or such. You may want to consult your vet about this, since his system may not be developed enough yet to jump straight to solid puppy food.\n\nBTW, he's about the cutest thing I've ever seen! I wish I'd had my two pits when they were pups! :)",
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"body": "Four weeks was too young to take Taft from his mama and sibs. 8 weeks is the norm for pups to remain with mama and sibs to learn canine socialization skills and bite inhibition skills. You really should read up on bite inhibition. It will become more important as your pup grows, especially with the breed's current reputation.\n\nI will send you a message with suggestions on forums to look into online with people who have dealt with this kind of situation.",
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"body": "Crate when you are not home, do not let your dog do anything that you think is wrong, i.e. biting you (scream when he does, he will stop, this is what puppies do to each other), otherwise the rest of the advice on here is spot on.",
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iPhone will not restore!!! Help me please! | Today, at work, I dropped my iPhone about 3 ft on to concrete. I picked it up and resumed texting but it said I had no service. Moments later, it told me there was no cellular network or something, please restore in iTunes.
So, I call my Mom and ask her to bring my laptop to where I work and during my break, I plugged it in to restore it. iTunes said somewhere along the lines that my SIM card was not found and if using SIM PIN please enter it. My SIM card is in there (later on in the day, I put it in my friends iPhone and it worked.) So I'm thinking I broke a pin that reads the SIM card.
Now here is the bad part.
I jailbroke it using Blackra1n and heavily modded it. Since its in locked state, I cannot restore it. I even put it in DFU mode and tried doing it that way and says iPhone "iPhone" cannot be restored. Error (23).
I have an Apple Protection Plan but I'm afraid they'll see that it's jailbroken and charge me full price for a new one.
I don't even have a back up phone to use right now.
Any help whatsoever would be GREATLY appreciated.
EDIT 1.15.10: Took phone to AT&T. The guy plugged it into their special version of iTunes. Got same error. Told me to go to Apple store which is 45 minutes away :(
EDIT 1.16.10: So without restoring it, I took it to The Apple store. They tried everything that the guy at AT&T did and gave up. He gave me a new 16GB 3Gs free of charge. No questions asked. :) | 10 | [
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"body": "I don't know exactly, but I've had many times where I thought i was fucked.\n\nOne thing google found. \n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4_vBYXeIWA&feature=player_embedded#\n\nA couple other things. Use a Mac, use a PC, use the 10 second/10 second DFU, use the 5 second/15 second DFU, try restoring to old firmwares. Do everything. I had my phone broke for a whole day, and I eventually got vista, and older version of iTunes, and restored it. (Don't take that advice, thats rough)\n\nJust don't panic. Most likely you are not screwed. These things never break with errors. Don't listen to what people tell you unless they are people from Apple or people who KNOW. Usually people say its a brick because they haven't FOUND out how to do it.\n\nBest of luck sir. Make sure you find it out because when I screw up again, I'm coming back to this thread.\n\n",
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"body": "Wow, talk about coincidence. I had this exact same problem just the other day. I dropped a 70lb. dumbell on it. Other than a slightly firmer dock connection, it was in pristine condition. No dents, cracks, etc. But, it shut off. Tried, to restore, and got a 1611 error. It was blackra1ned too. \n\nI took it to the store and they never asked what happened and replaced it, without question, after they attempted and failed to restore. They could never see that it was jailbroken (which was easy to tell from even my lockscreen) because it was caught in restore/DFU mode. If you can't tell from any of the screens that it'll give you that it is, indeed, jailbroken, then just take it to the store and save yourself the effort.\n\nP.S. -- I had no protection plan. Just the standard 12mo. warranty. ",
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Cocos2d for Android could use your help | Hi Everyone,
I saw this earlier and figured I let redditors know. If you're into Android programming or looking to help out with a cool Java project the folks porting the iPhone Cocos2d (popular framework for building 2d games) could use your help.
Here's the project summary page:
http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-android/wiki/ProjectSummary
Go forth and be awesome! | 21 | [
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"body": "Upvoted. Hope this gets on the programming front page and the project gets some traction. Cocos2d is great!",
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"body": "Um, why not use the Rokon library?\n\nhttp://rokonandroid.com/\n\nNot that I have a problem with more Android game libraries though. Hell, if nothing else you can use that as a resource.",
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Hey Reddit, is it possible to alter your sexual preferences and fetishes? | I'm a guy that is incredibly aroused by fat girls. I've been looking at BBW (Big Beautiful Women) porn since I was 12. I like everything about fat women. I find it arousing when girls stuff themselves with food and can barely move. I like it when girls gain weight on purpose. I've been in a few relationships with BBWs. It has its ups and downs. I've even been a feeder (someone that helps and encourages their partner to gain weight), and helped my gf gain 20 pounds.
But while I enjoy this stuff, I find it terribly impractical. Finding an attractive BBW that is comfortable with her body is very rare. Most of the time they are very insecure and talk about losing weight allt he time. Some BBWs won't let me touch their belly. Finding a feedee (someone who enjoys being fed and gaining weight) is especially hard.
Also, I really watch what I eat (pretty much all organic), and I know that being overweight is very unhealthy. It's really ironic, I know.
Also, there are so many attractive skinny girls out there that I could go out with easily, and part of me wishes I could just be normal and do that. However, on 2 separate occasions last year I found myself in bed with skinny girls and could not get hard. These moments were incredibly embarrassing and after that I decided I would only go after BBWs. I've fucked skinny - chunky girls before. I was even aroused by a small Asian a long time ago. But I don't know what to do now.
Reddit, is it possible for me to change these habits and become aroused by skinny girls? | 6 | [
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"body": "Punch yourself in the crotch any time you become even remotely aroused in any manner about bbws and fatties. That should fix everything.",
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Do you think it is in poor taste for newscasters to Interview terrified victims of the Hatian Earthquake while they are trapped in the rubble? | Like many of you, I've been watching CNN's coverage of the Hatian earthquake. Just now on Larry King, A segment was played in which Susan Candiotti (sp?) was on site interviewing a man in the midst of a painful extraction from a collapsed building. Blowtorches were being used to melt rebar trapping him, burning him in the process. He was offered a microphone and asked "how was he feeling" by the CNN reporter. I believe this goes beyond what is acceptable behavior on the part of the staff, and reeks of media exploitation of a terrified victim. I cannot imagine a scenario in which this would be appropriate. To me, it is as tacky and thoughtless as a foreign reporter interviewing helpless victims trapped in the rubble of the twin towers, and asking them "how they feel" about their situation. It seems like journalism for sport. What could have been an opportunity to offer this man hope and support, had been transformed into a television spectacle.
I'm all for raising global awareness and revealing the true horror of what is happening in haiti, this is something the media can do. But I don't think it should forgo human decency. I'd rather see a picture of someone holding his hand, than his bleeding, empty hand.
Just my 2 cents, hopefully not too preachy. | 1,447 | [
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"body": "that is fucked up.\n\nThat is not journalism, not in the least. Journalists are supposed to be \"ethical\", at least that's what Journalism 101 taught me.\n\nthere is no excuse for that sort of fucking shit. fuck that fucker.\n\nI know that the Haiti earthquake was a big deal, but this is an entire media circus. 24/7 Haiti and nothing else. Not to take away from the peoples' feelings, but we know Haiti was hit by an earthquake, and we know that people are suffering. We don't need to be reminded about this every single second.\n\nAlso, I think that the CNN \"is a loved on missing, report to CNN!\" is fucking distasteful as well. What're the odds that CNN, fucking CNN is going to be able to do anything? It's just exploiting these people to get more ratings.\n\nFUCK.\n\nTHEM.",
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"body": "Hey I just signed up for an account just to respond to this post.\n\nAlthough I don't usually talk about it, I was attending Virginia Tech during the shooting, and I got a firsthand look at how messed up news is. \n\n1: My roomate's girlfriend was interning at a major news network, she had friends who died in the shooting. Her boss told her to interview some parents at the hospital. When she said she wasn't going to interview her friends' parents, with their children wounded or worse in the hospital, she was told to either interview them or be fired. She was fired.\n\n2: No one publicized this, but there was a huge problem with news crews from all over illegally entering dorms and camping outside of school buildings and harassing students. There were signs everywhere on campus saying \"reporters not allowed in this building,\" but for weeks they were ignored. \n\nAnd this is more subjective, but I know from watching news after the fact that all national news- CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, etc, is all sensationalism. The real story doesn't matter, tragedy doesn't matter, all that matters is a headline that will catch the attention of the stay-at-home-mom while she irons her kid's soccer uniform.\n\nOne last thing about how messed up news is and how they will bullsh*t the truth to make a story: I was told this by my professor, because by the time classes started again I wasn't watching the news. \n\nMy professor had both the shooter and one of his victims in his class, and somebody in the class was interviewed and made the mistake of saying that months ago this guy had approached Cho and tried to start a conversation. Within hours this reporter was on TV stating that this student had approached Cho repeatedly and tried to make friends with him and that Cho had killed him in retaliation. All fabricated from one line from a classmate. Seriously, how messed up is that?\n\nDon't trust the news, seriously. I don't. EDIT: To answer your rhetorical question, *of course* it was in bad taste, the guy is being blowtorched! Throw down your camera and help dig people out (it really happens, there are good reporters/human beings out there).",
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"body": "I always think about Die Hard at the end when the reporter asks Ms. Genero how she feels and she drops him with a punch. More people need to do this when reporters are fucktards.",
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"body": "I agree with you 100%\n\nAnyone in the world looks like an idiot if they ask someone trapped in rubble how they're feeling but for some reason if you're holding a microphone and there's a camera behind you that's okay. \n\nAs part of the public I don't feel I have a right to know how someone is feeling but I do have the right to be left alone if my house has collapsed around me.",
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"body": "Interviewer: Could you please describe how it feels to have both legs crushed without any anesthetics to numb the pain?\n\nVictim: *Indecipherable wailing*\n\nInterviewer: Back to you, Larry.",
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"body": "Mitigating factors:\n\n* The man was being rescued, and had people attending to him. The reporter was not standing by letting the victim suffer at the expense of rescue.\n\n* I can imagine the distraction of being interviewed might be a welcome one if I was in the same situation. Looking up and talking to a reporter for a moment... well I can see that being a welcome detachment.\n\n* The reporter might not have wanted to get too closely involved for fear of interfering with the rescue effort already in place. \n\nOf all the questions to ask.. \"how are you feeling\" is a rather useless one. How do you think he's feeling? This kind of reporting gets on my nerves as well.\n\nI can think of a number of better questions, both from a purely informational standpoint, and a compassionate one. How long have you been trapped like this? Is there anything you need? How long has this rescue effort been going on? Questions that are actually helpful or will actually inform us of things.\n\nEdit: Fixed a few typos and formatting\n",
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"body": "That's not journalism, that's exploitation. The better question to be asked, though, is why is CNN there in the first place. Are their cameras, soundmen, generators using scarce fuel, helping in mitigating the effects of the disaster in any way? Same goes for NBC sending its anchor to do live shots from the airport. All in all the presence of TV is a drain on the resources that should be used in disaster relief. \nThink of it this way: every chartered airplane carrying a news team is an aircraft that's taking a landing slot that's really needed to carry a plane full of, um, doctors.\n",
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"body": "That is disgusting, and embodies so much about what I detest in the media. \n\nSo many 'journalists' these days don't seem to care in the slightest about anything except getting a controversial story. It doesn't matter to them if it's inappropriate or even harmful, so long as it's newsworthy. In fact they seem to prefer extreme and damaging things.\n\nHaving media crawling all over Haiti might be good in terms of bringing in aid and donations, but there's a limit, and this exceeds it.",
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"body": "When people say, \"There are no stupid questions\", I disagree. There are stupid questions (especially if it's coming from someone who's supposed to be a professional journalist) and asking this guy \"how are you feeling\" while he's being blowtorched out of a pile of concrete rubble is a stupid fucking question. Would they have done this at 9/11 ground zero? ",
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"body": "[This is extremely relevant.](http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/07/nsfw-after-fort-hood-another-example-of-how-citizen-journalists-cant-handle-the-truth/)\n\n\"we don’t realise that our humanity is leaking away until it's too late\"",
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"body": "Yeah, it's pretty fucked. By all means, talk to him afterwards, even while he's in hospital, but not while he's actually being pulled out. Not only is it in incredibly bad taste, the reporter also risked getting in the way of emergency services, which is a fucking huge no-no.",
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"body": "I kind of disagree, while this particular example isn't great journalism at least it's raw and uncensored look at what's going on -- the way journalism ought to be. I much prefer this Haiti coverage to the watered down soup we get from Iraq and Afghanistan. ",
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"body": "I fully agree. Such total crap. They had a girl trapped in rubble and only her legs were sticking out. So what do they do? They stand immediately next to her(putting pressure on top of the rubble) and try to interview her. The whole time she's yelling in pain. Stupid people have no heart and shouldn't be there. They are more interested in ratings than helping. ",
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"body": "That's not \"poor taste\", that's a pathological lack of empathy, probably the result of long term cultivation of narcissism. ",
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"body": "Yes.\n\nIt's like going up to someone with a microphone who just had a child/parent brutally murdered and asking \"how does this make you feel?\"\n\nThis is one of the main reasons why I absolutely loathe american broadcast news.",
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"body": "Agree 100%. Some of the stories I read about this the day after it happened (yesterday?) kept mentioning some reporter who was interviewing a teacher trapped under rubble from her school collapsing. She said she was dying and she had two children with her.\n\nAnd that was that. No more mention of the reporter trying to help her or whatever happened to her. It's like \"Fuck yeah, I got my story, my bosses are gonna give me a fucking blow job. Let's get the fuck out of here\". That's what I imagined this reporter saying to himself. I'm secretly hoping this reporter has since died.",
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"body": "Interviewing victims instead of rescuing them is a ghoulish and cruel exploitation of the victims and the reporter should be thrown out of the country, removed from the payroll, then publicly ridiculed.",
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"body": "I definitly felt the same sentiment listening to wolf blitzer in the past few days. \n\n>GARY TUCHMAN You see wheelbarrows, truckfulls of bodies. It's very disturbing...\n\n>BLITZER: Are you still hearing people still crying out, wailing, if you will, for help, people who are trapped in these buildings?",
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"body": "I just wished the person had a gun with him. Pointing at the journalist, and asking \"in few seconds I am goingto blow your head off, turn the camera to you and tell the world now how it feels\". And bang. ",
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"body": "No, but it is incredibly poor taste for the victims to ask the reporters to help get them out of the rubble. Selfish assholes. The reporter has to think about his hair.",
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"body": "Fuck you Cable TV News. Why the hell are you still around. I'd rather have a bunch of stupid lousy newspapers with an occasional great columnist or cartoonist and at least some local coverage than the shit dump that is Cable TV News. Yet the newspapers are the ones dying and your sorry asses are still around. Fuck off and die. We don't need 24 hours of your shit and we don't need it across 5 or 6 stations. You complain that you don't have enough time to dig into any fucking story or do any fucking fact checking and yet you're on 24 fucking hours a fucking day. That's all the time. All of it. There isn't any more time. You have all the fucking time you can get. Use some of it to FUCKING SUCK LESS.",
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"body": "When i'm watching the news, I really don't care for them to ask how that guy is feeling. I can see the blowtorches. I can see he was fucking TRAPPED. I either cannot even begin to understand how he feels, or it is perfectly illustrated in front of me. \n\nWhen I'm watching the news, I want them to ask something real. They don't get paid to think like that anymore . . .",
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"body": "I have to agree with the OP as I have also been finding some of this coverage to be a bit much. I was also wondering how much resources are being used up by the media in Haiti right now such as transportation etc. I started to wonder that when I saw a CNN reporter who mentioned she managed to get a helicopter and she was flying above Haiti showing the devastation and all I could think was what a waste of a helicopter when it could be used in a much more beneficial manner then flying some reporter around.",
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"body": "Reporters asking stupid questions like: \"Could you please, to the best of your abilities describe what it is you're feeling now, specifically the weight of that building?\" (just illustrating a point) Makes me sick sometimes. Sure their job is to report to the rest of the world, but that doesn't mean abandoning basic human decency and not immediately saying F the camera, and help! Hell if you want powerful images of survival that badly set the camera facing you, but for goodness' sake help, don't just watch!",
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"body": "Excuse me sir, how do you feel while trapped in the rubble without anybody helping? How would you qualify the pain compared to what you had experienced in your life? Are you thirsty? On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you like to have this bottle of water I'm holding? Okay thank you very much kind sir, let's hope you'll be found and rescued soon! This is A\\_for\\_Anonymous reporting for Assholes to Assholes TV.",
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"body": "I listened to that same interview on XM/CNN this morning on my way to school. The reporter was interviewing a man trapped alive in the rubble for 46 hours. The reporter had a complaint in the end... The subject was carried away too fast to catch up and find out how he was and where he was being taken. They tried to interview another person trapped it the rubble but she was too distraught since her ony child was trapped somewhere else. I had to pull over and vomit. Fuck CNN!",
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DAE hate those "+ share" rollover graphics? | To clarify, [these](http://imgur.com/06bw0.png) things.
It seems like every time I accidentally roll over it, it covers up something important and I have the hardest time getting it to close. I don't know if it's just a Firefox issue or if these things are a pain in the ass for every browser. | 54 | [
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"body": "From a usability standpoint, those things are a retarded nightmare. Suppose someone actually does want to submit some random blog post to reddit or Digg or one of apparently hundreds of social news sites. Are they going to know specifically where the link on that one particular site is to submit that post to whichever social site they're looking for? Probably not, it requires some hunting and they probably won't even bother. It's because it's not even close to a standardized feature. And for anyone who isn't interested in using them, they're just an annoyance that takes up space. Anyone who does have a habit of posting on social sites most likely already has a bookmarklet or toolbar/addon for it that they're used to using.",
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"body": "I use chrome and the same damn thing happens to me. Usually followed by a 'ffffffuuuuuuuu' and then f5. They always seem to cover up what ever I'm reading at the time.",
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What's the difference between a pale ale and an IPA? | I realize this has probably been asked before. And probably makes me look like really lame that I have to ask. However, as enthusiastic a beer lover I may be, I don't know a whole ton about stuff that I don't drink. I don't like IPAs because of the bitterness. I think they're nasty. But I saw at the liquor store that Harpoon has released a UFO pale ale. I love Harpoon and I love the UFO beers, so I'm thinking about trying it, but I've never tried a pale ale before, only stuff labeled IPA which I **really** didn't like. So then I decided to steer clear of anything with "pale ale" in the name entirely. So, should I try it? Would a 6 pack of UFO pale ale be worth it? And what exactly is the difference, if there even is one? | 8 | [
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"body": "Of course you should fucking try it. Worse case scenario: You don't like it and you're out a few dollars. Best case scenario, You like the god damn thing.",
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"body": "The bitterness you are tasting is the hops. Pale ales are usually less hoppy though, so I say try it. Expect some bitterness though. Also, don't get too attached to the idea that you dislike a certain style of beer. Your tastes will change with time. I didn't like pale ales at first either, but now I'm an IPA / IIPA addict. :)",
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"body": "You may like it. The bitterness you tasted were the extra hops that are put into an IPA, which stands for India pale ale. The extra hops helped in the preservation process when shipping the beers from europe to india via boat back in the day. Hence the name, Indian Pale ale. A pale ale will be without this bitterness, though there is certainly overlap, I have tasted some pale ales which are hoppier than some IPA's (or so it seemed). At a minimum you should certainly give it a try.",
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"body": "Typically, IPAs are like pale ales with more malt, more hops, and more alcohol.\n\nBeerAdvocate has a great rundown of many beer styles: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style",
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"body": "IPA's or India Pale Ales were brewed originally in the UK for shipment to the British troops in India. In order to survive the journey (heat plus duration), it had to be made extra hoppy and with more malt (higher OG and a bit darker) and then brewed down to a higher alcohol content.",
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"body": "It depends on what country you're in.\r\n\r\nIn the US a pale ale is basically a scaled-down IPA. Less hops, less alcohol.\r\n\r\nIn the UK a pale ale is basically the same as bitter (that is, the standard British cask ale). What an IPA is is less certain. In Scotland it's typically blond ale in the range 3.5-4.5%. In England I've seen various takes on it, some which are obviously US-inspired or closer to the original, and others which are indistinguishable from bitter. I guess I should add that British bitters are not really very bitter at all, certainly much less so than US IPA.\r\n\r\nI think if you find IPAs too bitter a pale ale may be the place to start. Alternatively, a double IPA may be just the thing. I know that sounds crazy, since everyone knows 2IPAs have more IBUs, but they also tend to have lots more body and sweetness, so subjectively they often taste much less bitter. Give it a go, anyway.",
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Can someone please explain how special relativity works to me? | This is something I do not understand. If you take two clocks, one on earth and one on a rocket moving away from earth at the speed of light for some period of time and then stopping and then measure the clock on the rocket, less time will have passed on it than on the one on earth. I understand at least the equation for time dilation, but why does the clock in on the rocket experience it relative to the earth in this way? Couldn't we say that the rocket was fixed and that the earth was moving away from it at the speed of light? Wouldn't then less time pass on the clock on the earth? I cannot reconcile these two ideas in my head. Without some sort of fixed (0,0,0) origin in the universe that we are all moving relative to I don't see how this works!
EDIT: Thanks to all of you, I think I see now that what I understood happened in special relativity only applies if both clocks are in inertial reference frames. Since the rocket has to accelerate at some point to get up to the speed of light, it enters a non-inertial reference frame, and this is what causes the clocks to not reconcile when they are brought back together when the rocket is stopped. | 3 | [
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"body": "The rocket has been accelerating -- it cannot be considered fixed.\n\nWere this rocket drifting (engines off) past earth at nearly the speed of light, it could be said the rocket is fixed and the earth moving.",
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"body": "There's two cases.\n\n1. The rocket is moving away from the Earth at, say, 0.8c forever. In this case, you (on Earth) will see a clock on the rocket going slower than your clock on Earth. In the rocket, they will see your clock going slower than the clock that they have on the rocket. There's no contradiction here, since in both cases what you're seeing is the extra amount of time it takes the \"tick\" from the clock to arrive at your location since the Earth and the rocket are moving apart. The magic of relativity is that everything should still work, since what observers see is what matters.\n\n2. You stop the rocket and compare clocks. In that case, things are not symmetrical, since the rocket has accelerated.",
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Dear Reddit, your social organizing/activism expertise/experience please. Input is greatly appreciated. | Hello,
I have just been appointed a position in a club at my college campus to raise awareness regarding California's shitty budget cuts towards higher education. We're considered a "commuter college" and organizing with rallies sometimes nets us 200-400 student turn out. We do small things like lobbying for local legislators as well as visiting the state capitol. I believe we hit the radical and more "socially acceptable" means to get shit done.
Pushing aside the backstory, I'm interested to know if any redditors have been involved in student activism, grass roots organizing, or any civic engagement experience.
My question, what are some things that you guys do to
a) recruit students
b) raise awareness
c) give incentive for those to stay
d) sustain for future years.
We've done tabling, door to door, classroom presentation, facebook invites, emails, phone banking, dinners, coax ppl out with food, gift cards...We've done a few good things but I would love to hear what people have to say regarding means to appeal to people's emotions and show em this cause that directly affects students. And if you don't agree with this, well, even if you're a tea bagger, what means do you do to appeal to your own interest groups.
tl;dr: experiences as to how to recruit, preserve, and sustain civically/socially active groups.
Thanks! | 5 | [
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"body": "i'd come up with a witty, thought-provoking ad campaign using small posters with simple slogans and images (vector based graphics and text). post that shit everywhere. bathroom stalls, under placemats at the local eatery, inside (specific) books at the library, folded up under keyboards at the computer lab, etc.\n\nmake them humorous with meme-like jokes and terminology, but applicable to your cause. keep it simple and intriguing. ",
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"body": "I worked on this exact campaign last year in FL, and had a lot of success organizing with local educators' unions - and not just higher ed, either. *Everyone* is facing budget cuts, but unfortunately folks are initially more likely to fight for their little piece of that education pie than stand in solidarity demanding real solutions. If you can break through that barrier, you'll find you've got more motivated individuals ready to throw down than you've ever imagined possible. \n\nAfter that, the most important thing is building and sustaining momentum. Fact is - and this is especially true with students - if something is not engaging, participatory, and, above all, exciting, people are not going to stick around. This means that somewhere along the line you're going to have to take risks. Be smart about it, and always plan three steps ahead - your mantra: build momentum, build momentum. Too big of a risk too fast and you've lost it. Beware the ultimate college movement momentum killer, summer break, and try to incorporate it into your plans. \n\nIn the course of your campaign you'll probably need to single out some politicians and administrators for their less enlightened points of view. I wish this wasn't the case, but god damnit if it isn't easier to get people riled up when there's a figurehead to be mad at. This man/woman is not really your enemy; more like an unwitting partner in your activist scheme. Your job: make them slip up, over react, misspeak, god forbid arrest some innocent protester. Exploit the poor soul mercilessly - but of course, stay classy. This is a battle of ideas, not of personal attacks. It'll help if, while doing this, you've got someone friendly but largely unaffiliated with your movement (student government folks usually fit the bill) working on the inside to see what compromises can be made. Just be careful they're not too politically ambitious or they may try to hijack the movement and initiate processes that'll take away your momentum. Keep 90% of the focus on what's going on in the streets.\n\nOf course, wankerbot's suggestion will be something you'll be engaging in at all points of your campaign. A fully devoted, imaginative, and skillful propaganda working group will probably be your greatest asset. Chalking and banner drops are two non-destructive ways of communicating large visual messages; do what you can get away with (Interestingly, we never had a banner drop get taken down, mostly because we had the custodial staff - and to some extent the cops - on our side ^_^). Well placed/designed, they're much more effective than hundreds of fliers. [Here's an example](http://imgur.com/rThg1) of a really simple one we hung during a die-in advertising for a larger anti-war action later in the week. We'd use rope or busted bicycle inter-tubes to tie weights (usually refilled water bottles from a nearby recycling bin) onto the four corners of a tarp like that one. Two are dropped over along with the banner, and two more and used as weights on the other side of the wall to keep it in place. Works like a charm, takes 1 min to deploy.\n\nAnd lastly, remember those kids recently occupying college administration buildings in your state? I don't give a damn how moderate you may be, they need to be your friends. ",
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Can anyone help me out? Trying to find a link lost in time!!! | I'm looking for a post probably from a bit more than a year ago. All I remember is it was a pretty solid paragraph of the guy declaring his casting off of religion, all the happiness he gets from being free of it, and there was a photo of a man nude after throwing off his clothes and running toward a beach.
I could swear I bookmarked it or downloaded the site to hard drive but I haven't been able to find it anywhere and don't remember any text from it to google. Any help would be greatly appreciated because that paragraph was gold!
EDIT: stayed up late on this one but I eventually found it! And I was wrong it was Thanksgiving not Easter. original post by MaryjaneBrewington: http://www.elasticheart.com/?p=676 For anyone who hasn't seen this link yet I hope you like it! | 8 | [
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"body": "dude, if that's all you got, you're fucked.\n\nunless someone with an amazing memory remembers it specifically.",
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I'm unhappy even though everyone says I should be happy and grateful for my life. What can I do? | I know there have been other posts similar to this, but I think this is a slightly different case and I was wondering if anyone could give any advice.
I'm a college student studying CS. I'm a year ahead of where I should be and I've done undergraduate research that should put me graduating with at least a few publications. I'm currently at an internship to take a short break from school; it's in a slightly different field from my other research (I wanted to diversify) and I really like the people I work with. I really like my landlord and the people I live with as well. I even get along with the other interns.
Everything in my life is going how I want it, but I'm not at the stage where I have achieved everything I want to. I originally thought that my problem was similar to the problem people have when they achieve everything they feel like they are supposed to achieve according to social norms to be successful. That's not really how I feel though.
I feel unreasonably depressed about my whole situation. I no longer have any motivation to study or advance. I feel like people don't like me. I have had trouble forming romantic relationships and meeting people unlike ever before. If anyone has any sort of tips or has been in a similar situation let me know, I'm really interested to see any input. | 3 | [
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"body": "Several years ago, I graduated from High School and went directly into college where I was a bright student with a beautiful girlfriend and a promising blossoming career as an Anthropologist, but I felt the same way you do. I made the mistake of reading Chuck Palinyuk (sp?) while I was feeling particularly depressed one day, and I developed a mortal fear of death, which quickly evolved into a mortal fear of dying in a vain, contrived life of forced success and empty appearences of happiness.\n\nSo I dropped out of college and followed my silly childhood dream of becoming a wildland firefighter. Within a few months, I was doing prescribed burns in North Dakota, and I eventually became a division supervisor of a hand crew in Arizona. Every day I woke up and made a difference in the world while having adventures that most people only read about. I almost died a few times, got in fist fights, drank lots of whiskey, met amazing people, and saw things that changed my perception of reality.\n\nMy advice to you is this: If you're not happy with what you're doing, stop and do what you dreamed of doing. Don't be afraid of any barriers or challenges that come between you and your dreams--to die is not to fail.\n\nThat being said, you may just be having a short-term crisis. Don't drop out of school to wait tables or work at the grocery store. If you have a real shot at doing something amazing, go for it as soon as you can.\n\nP.S. I eventually went back to college. It's hard to make it without a degree these days. But I wouldn't have done it any differently if I had the chance.",
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Nerdy Girl Erotica #4- The Club | Kinda long, so it's in two parts.
The card seemed thicker than normal- somehow more substantial than a credit card. They say a black American express feels like a piece of ceramic tile, and this card had a similar feeling of weight to it. It was silver, with plain black letters reading “Torn”, and on the back, in very small print, were two numbers. The first were labeled “guest number 46052”, and the second was 10 digits, and started with our area code. A phone number.
I felt bad already. Guilty. Like I was snooping through your things. And I was, only I hadn’t meant to be. I was doing your laundry and it was in of one of your pockets. You always seem to be leaving things in them and if I didn’t check beforehand, I’d end up washing your car keys or your wallet, or your cell phone, so I’ve learned to be thorough in checking. But this is something I’ve never seen before.
We’ve been dating for almost two years, and we’re pretty open with one another, or so I thought. Until I held this card in front of me and wondered what you’d been keeping a secret. Because this isn’t the kind of thing you just toss away- the letters are engraved on it and it looks important. And it says “guest number” on it, and knowing that there’s suddenly this big thing I don’t know about is weird. It’s just a little card, but it feels enormous, so without thinking, I head to the computer.
I don’t find much googling the phone number. An address downtown for a floor of what looks like an office building alongside a description that says “Entertainment for likeminded individuals”.
I’ve been cleaning all day- hair pulled up into pigtails and no make-up on. But considering I may be storming into breaking up with you, I want to look fantastic. I shower, angry and upset and end up rubbing my skin just a little raw with the loofa before I slide into a tight black sheath, the fabric clinging to my curves and making me look incredible. I make my big brown eyes smoky and seductive, and put on the deep red lip gloss that makes my little rosebud mouth look pouty and intense against the pale creaminess of my skin. My hair I leave down, ironed into a sharp little bob around my face. After strapping on five inch patent leather stilettos, I’m ready to kick your ass and look pretty while I do it.
But standing in front of the intercom for the building, I’m shaking again. Nervous and scared and upset. Because I really liked you. You swept me off my feet, and until I made the discovery of this little piece of plastic, I was honestly thinking fairy tales and happy ever afters.
“Torn” A sultry, seductive female voice intones. “How can I direct you call?”
And I want to just ask her what it is. But the card, the voice, the nondescript building- everything about the situation screams discretion and I’m worried about what could possibly be so bad you’re hiding it from me. A brothel? Is there some kind of prostitution ring you’ve gotten tangled up in?
“Can I help you?”
“I’m interested in joining”, I stutter out, and after a moment of her silence, I remark “I was referred by a guest?”
“Which?”
I give her the number on the card, and your name, and there’s silence again. But then the door buzzes loudly, and I’m free to walk inside.
There’s no one to greet me in the lobby, but the elevator is right there, so I strut to the doors, feigning confidence in case whoever is behind all of this has invested in security cameras. The elevator buttons aren’t labeled, so I jab the button for the top floor, hoping it’s the right choice.
When I emerge from the door, it’s like all of my worst fears are confirmed. Men and women are bumping and grinding on the floor to some unidentifiable music with incredibly resonant bass, and against the wall near me, a woman is getting brutally fucked. Low couches and loveseats line the floor in comfortable seating arrangements that wouldn’t look out of place in the lobby of an upscale hotel. But at one a man is casually carrying on a conversation as a dark-haired woman bobs her head in his lap. A beautiful blond sits on the floor near a group of people laughing and talking, with a leash around her neck. I stand there in the entryway, shocked beyond words. I don’t know what I expected, but in the million scenarios playing out in my head, it was never like this.
I keep scanning the crowd, and I don’t know if it’s to try and find you, or to try and reassure myself that you’re not there, but I keep coming back to the girl with the blond hair wearing the leash. She’s not the only person wearing a leash and collar here, but something about her is drawing her to me. And that’s when I realize it’s Amy. Amy, of Amy and Gary- the couple you’re friends with who’ve come over for dinner a few times. We’ve played charades at their house. But it’s no wonder I didn’t recognize her at first. Amy… she reminds me of myself. Always cute and casual, half the time she’s wearing one of Gary’s old shirts, but right now it looks like she’s been poured into black leather. A corset that is laced wickedly tight over a tiny little skirt, her long tan legs bare.
Before I can rush out, they recognize me. Amy’s face looks shocked, and then she smiles and nudges Gary’s leg. He looks shocked for a moment as well, then chuckles and waves me over.
I totter over to them, unsteady on my heels and completely clueless. Why are Amy and Gary here?
Gary stands and tugs Amy’s leash so she’s standing as well, and hugs me, brushing his lips against my cheek before Amy does the same. He settles on his couch and pats his lap, like you would for a dog, and Amy scrambles eagerly into his arms.
“I told him you’d come around to it once he told you,” he says with a chuckle, wrapping his arms around Amy and snuggling her tight. “Amy here was a good girl when I met her, too. It’s always the quiet ones.”
“But Kevin said he didn’t want you sullied by any of this,” Amy explains, shrugging. “So, if he wanted to keep it a secret, I guess it was his business. You could tell he wasn’t happy though, so I’m glad he finally told you his dirty little secret.” She smiles happily and tilts her head against Gary’s shoulder, and seems just as at ease here as she is in my living room playing scrabble. “Is he going to collar you tonight in front of everybody? When Gary did, it was crazy intense.”
Collar me? As in a slave. As in, my boyfriend has been going to a secret sex club where he probably ties girls up and fucks them. As in, you’re cheating on me, and when I look around the room helplessly, I can’t even blame you, because the women here are incredible. Amy is incredible. She looks insanely fucking hot, like she’s just completely given control over to Gary and she doesn’t resent it. Doesn’t look unhappy. She’s glowing. Completely in control of her sexuality. I look at these women- the girl on her knees, the half naked women on the floor writhing in ecstasy, the woman getting fucked against the wall, and I wonder what they have that I don’t. What makes them okay with being this open, in front of everybody? And what makes me not have it. And then I feel a hand sliding down my thigh as a warm body presses itself to my back, and a man whispers “Hey, Sexy- I noticed you’re not wearing a collar- does that mean you’re fair game?”
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And maybe I hadn’t think I was capable of acting like a depraved little whore either, but if I was going to lose out because I’d been a good girl my entire life, I was sure as hell going to try being a bad girl for once.\n\nWe were grinding in the center of the floor to the music, his body hot against mine, the sweat of his body pressing my dress into my skin, his thigh insinuated between mine as I ground against it shamelessly. He laced his hands in my hair and ate at my mouth, violent and hard enough I could taste blood, and I felt this rush go up my spine as I let him use me. As I used him, as I ground my already dripping little pussy against his thigh, writhing like a bitch in heat. And I could feel his cock throbbing through his jeans as he pressed against my thigh. Big, and hard, and I wondered what it would be like to be just taken right here. \n\nYou and I had only ever done it in the missionary position with the lights off. For the first six months we dated, we didn’t even have sex. You were my first time, and I thought you were going to be my last, but clearly, I hadn’t been getting the dirty nasty side of you. Sex between us was all soft sighs and gentle kisses- pleasant and sweet, and pretty. Nothing about this place was pretty or nice or sweet. As I danced, I felt another man come up behind me, and begin to grind against my ass, and rather than being irritated, my dance partner seemed to be spurred on. Soon, both of them were rocking against me, and I was squirming shamelessly between them- the pressure of their cocks against me making me crave being filled like I’d never imagined before.\n\n\nSliding a hand down the flat stomach of the man in front of me, I begin to insinuate one hand into his pants, and I squeeze his hard cock through his trousers, feeling it pulse in my hand as I feel a gush of answering wetness between my thighs, and then I feel a sharp tug backwards.\n\nBut it’s not my other dance partner. It’s you, and your eyes are glittering, and I can’t read you for once. You look angry, but I don’t care anymore. You made me angry, and hurt, and I think you deserve it anyway. “Play time is over, Darling”, you say, and your voice has this menace to it that I haven’t heard before.\n\n“Really, I don’t think it is,” I retort, flipping my hair back. “I was having a lovely time until you barged over. And who are you to tell me anyway? It’s not like you own me.”\n\nAnd you smirk at me. You still look angry, but you smirk, and you say “Don’t I?”\n\nGrabbing my wrist, you tug me back against you so that my back is tucked tightly against you and you’re whispering in my ear. “Are you really going to tell me I don’t own this filthy little slut?” A hand runs up my waist to cup my breast hard, and I gasp from the pain but it feels good too, and I can almost hear my blood pounding in my ears. “Just look at you. All whored up just to prove to me that you can be a dirty little girl, eh love?”\n\n“I’m not trying to prove anything to you,” I retort, and you strike hard and fast, slapping the side of my breast hard enough that I cry out. \n\n“Don’t lie to me. If you’d wanted away from me, if you were disgusted by all of this you wouldn’t still be here. Which was a pleasant surprise, love” you murmur into my ear. “It’s nice to realize that I don’t have to hide all the filthy little thoughts I have about you, because you’re going to let me indulge each and every one now, aren’t you? Going to let me train your little body to please mine, to only come when I tell it to, to love any attention I give it, whether it’s pleasure or pain?”\n\nAs you’re telling me all of this you run your hand down to the hem of my skirt and tug it up over my hips, before flicking out your every present Swiss army knife, and cutting just a little snag in the nylon of my panty hose and placing it back in your pocket. Ripping the hose apart, you leave a gaping hole wide around my crotch, and tug my panties to the side, with a finger. And then you slap hard, once, against my wet and throbbing little cunt. The sound seems loud enough that everyone should hear it over the music, but people just keep nonchalantly dancing around us. Gasping, I bend over a bit, the pain making me wince, but you wrap your other hand around my neck and pull me back into you. Your fingers are sliding through the wet juices of my cunt, so you know I’m enjoying this, and slide a finger roughly into me and begin fucking me with it in front of everybody. And I’ve never wanted to come as bad as I do right now, but you slide your hand out of me as I whine and I can hear the smirk in your voice.\n\n“If you want to come you’re going to have to prove it,” you say. “Prove it by being a nasty filthy little whore for me right here on the floor. I want you to fuck yourself hard with your hand, and while you’re doing that, you’re going to suck my cock like the eager little slut you are.”\n\nI’m panting, my chest heaving and my eyes wide. But I can’t lie to myself anymore. I’m insanely turned on by the notion of letting you control me. So I sink to my knees in front of you and nuzzle your hard cock through your pants- feeling the familiar length of it along my cheek before tugging on your zipper and slipping my hands inside to tug you out. You’re hard and throbbing, and I can’t help leaning forward to swipe my tongue across the tip of you like an eager little slut, before starting to lick and suck at you greedily. My hand is buried between my legs, and I’m riding it frantically, not caring that a large majority of the club is now focused on the little show that’s happening in the middle of the dance floor. In fact, there’s this little part of me that wants them to watch me like this. That wants them to know what you do to me.\n\nYour hand is laced in my hair, forcing my mouth down on your cock. Gagging me on it, so my eyes start to water. And you start to stiffen, and I can feel these little tremors in your legs and I think you’re going to cum, but you stop and tug me off out your cock, and push me off of the dance floor to one of the couches, bending me over it and thrusting hard into me in a single motion, before just staying there. Bent over me, your cock shoved up inside me, my little channel stinging at the shock of all of you being forced in that quickly. But it feels really good. And you start to buck into me, rasping against the tight little muscles of my cunt as I writhe around you and rock my hips back against yours, desperate for more. And you start growling in my ear “Don’t come”, over and over like a chant. Like an order my body can’t follow. I start begging “Please, let me come”, and finally you say “Tell me who you belong to?” And I gasp “You,” and you rasp “That’s fucking right,” against the skin of my throat and I can feel you starting to come inside me- jerking and spurting and giving me everything you have and you’re gasping “Come now” against my neck, and I can’t help but obey, on edge enough already that all I needed was your direction to push me past that final barrier. We lay there, draped over the arm of the couch, sweaty and shaking and still in the afterglow as people continue functioning around us as though we hadn’t just fucked in front of them. You nibble along my neck and then kiss my ear and say “You’re going to look so pretty wearing my collar.”\n",
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Would you volunteer to colonise a planet? | I'm sure some redditors would love to colonise a planet, but would you?
How would you be sure that once you arrived on the new planet you wouldn't simply be considered a slave?
**Edit:** I totally sucked at [Outpost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_\(video_game\)), so I wouldn't want to be in charge. *Your colony is dead, commander.* | 1,014 | [
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"body": "Would it be a sleeper ship or a generation ship?\n\nIf generation ship: Fuck no.\n\nIf sleeper ship: Let me sleep on it. ",
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"body": "Fuck yes. \n\nI'm 23, and I still want to build forts in the backyard. When it snows, I roll huge snowballs, and want to build forts with them. \n\nJust imagine... a whole fucking planet for me to play with. :-D",
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"body": "I actually had a dream about this. In my dream I was much younger and my family decided to move to mars to be a part of the first colony. The dream was pretty vivid, i remember we were poor and the gov't was more interested in seeing if it was possible to start a colony, so we were some sort of fodder in return we never had to worry about rent/bills. The house we lived in was built into the ground, but not completely subterranean, it was like the whole lower level on a split level house. It was incredibly small for our family of 6, and incredibly boring. Yes reddit, this is what I dream about. That and plane wrecks. ",
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"body": "This sounds like a good example of the human brain now knowing what would really make it happy. Maybe a couple of people here actually mean it but I doubt most people would be happy giving up 99% of the things they love on earth (the people, nature, the technology) to go start a colony on Mars. It's just a romantic idea.\n\nWant to go for a hike? Too bad, you're on fucking Mars. Here's a pack of cards. Now go play in your 5'x5' room with your friends you hate but can't leave for the rest of your life.",
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"body": "In a heartbeat. I'd even quit smoking.\n\nThe idea of being able to create a completely new society, from scratch, is such a compelling idea that I think it needs to happen. Playing even a small role in this would be worth giving up everything.\n\nEven Mars would be awesome. Mars will need plumbers, hackers, farmers, welders, electricians, construction workers, cooks, and miners. I think a major network should fund it. It would be the best reality show ever. ",
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"body": "Few ties to family and friends. Mechanical engineering degree and no clue what to do with it. Fed up with the state of the world. I'm able to call anywhere my home.\n\nI'd ask for 3 months to see the earth. Travel, see the sights, then jump aboard and never look back.",
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"body": "This needs to be a poll:\n\nhttp://host1.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=2876\n\nI've never used this service. I don't know how well this will turn out.",
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"body": "What would be different there in terms of status? I imagine we'd need to do a lot of manual labour to get the colonies established, which I do here anyways. I imagine we'd be surveying, studying, and experimenting, all of which I'd be fairly comfortable doing. We work to live here, but I think it's for less of a purpose than working towards establishing a colony on another planet. I mean, here we contribute to society in the interest of self preservation, to increase our status, to maintain a lifestyle, but most people just live. Needless to say I would be jumping at the opportunity to start fresh on another planet, even if it meant a lifetime of work.",
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"body": "Not only would I go, but I'd chronicle the whole thing in such a way that my life and deeds would one day become required reading by bored school children twenty or more generations after I've died. My adventure will become their homework as partial recompense for the sweat of my brow leading to their civilization.",
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"body": "Imagine a place, where we can send all of our prisoners off to, to get them out of our country, and make a better humanity.",
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"body": "In a heartbeat. Even if it were a one-way trip. I think that deep down, humans are meant to explore and discover. A pity that this planet has already been fully scoured - trash that Les Stroud finds on \"Survivorman\" attests to this.",
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"body": "as long as the planet wasn't inhabited by blood-thirsty human-splattering soulless ultra-efficient killing machine aliens, then sure, sign me up.",
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"body": "Yes. But if anyone wants me to stop terraforming and drive out to investigate a space ship that crashed 50 years earlier, they can go fuck themselves.",
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"body": "If the space colonization draft were held tomorrow, I'd volunteer today. No ifs ands or buts about it. I wouldn't care the risk or the reward. Space would be the only reward I needed.",
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"body": "Supplementary question:\r\n\r\nDo you have to be heterosexual? My friend immediately said yes but lamented that they would not want him since hes gay and so he could work but probably could not do a lot of procreation.\r\n\r\nDo you think that saying hetro only would be ok in these circumstances?\r\n",
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"body": "Fuck no. That's just asking to get filleted some creature that no one knew was on the planet until everyone got there and started getting filleted.",
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"body": "I would like to with one condition.\n\nI work in the orbital agricultural station/ship, which is something I believe colonisation requires.\n\nI don't like in the whole dump everything on the planet and hope the colonists survive method.",
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"body": "Yes, if we're not talking about a generational ship (e.g. colonizing Mars):\n\nI imagine the training would take several years (you'd need to know everything from performing emergency surgery to hydroponic farming to details of you ship and spaceflight to the architecture and construction in an absurdly harsh environment). By the end of the training, I'd either be good friends with the other crew members (better-ensuring it will be a good experience, and, to answer your question, that I won't end up as a slave), or I'd drop out of the training program because I was surrounded by people I couldn't stand.",
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"body": "I'd go one step further; a suicide mission to a planet, even one in our solar system. \n\nTo be the first to walk on Mars; send me on a one-way trip, let me exhaust my air supplies. I'll die happy. Just make sure it's a scenic part of the planet, and not some big flat dusty expanse of nothingness. I'll want a cliff to sit on or something.\n\nI'll even do some science. Give me some instruments, some chemistry. I'll spend a few weeks analyzing soil and atmosphere, whatever.\n\n",
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"body": "Hell yes! Though, would prefer if we get some tech right first (rejuvenation, cryo sleep and maybe some ftl would be cool).\r\n\r\nIf i was on a generation ship then...preferably ala Macross 7 style so I can take the POWER TO THE MUSIC to the stars with my beautiful Veritech fighter whilst puffing my shoulder pads :)\r\n\r\nAlso we talking one shot from earth to destination aka Earth Seed or more along the lines of we stop at system x, drop off some colonists and head on off to the next interesting system?\r\n\r\nPersonally I doubt our future is on a planet. Space is big, planets are small hard to get on and off from safely and have very few resources comparatively speaking.\r\n\r\nRather start thinking of asteroid colonies(hollow them out and live in them whilst mining the contents for useful minerals), Dyson spheres and space stations.\r\n\r\nHell volunteering to colonise a planet can be as easy as giving your DNA to whomever wants to colonise a planet. They build von Neuman machines that replicate themselves using raw materials(asteroids). Each one carries the Genetic code of a few billion people. The machines head off into galactic space, find a suitable planet, construct out of the solar system's asteroids a good enough infrastructure for humans to survive in and when everything is set up they start producing humans from the stored dna they have from Earth. \r\nThis would be the most economical way to actually colonise space. I think I read somewhere that even with conventional engineering we could colonise the whole galaxy in a 50million year span... not too shabby I would say.\r\nThe problem is off course you wont be actually doing the colonising yourself, but at least somewhere out there your genetic heritage is out of the kiddy pool ensuring your DNA stays alive :)\r\n",
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"body": "Do something amazingly new and unique with a definite and concrete purpose aimed at bettering and expanding the knowledge and scope of our society with the assurance that you know exactly why you're doing what you're doing and how it will help our species as a whole and expand your own mind? Why the fuck would I want to do that when I can spend all day anonymous on the internet consuming Coke and Pretzels?",
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"body": "Oh man, Outpost. Never played that but I played Outpost 2. That was an awesome game.\n\nIt's also kind of hard to -kill- your colony in Outpost 2, at least until the computer decides enough time has passed to put out the blight. Or if you forget to research how to train scientists before all your scientists die (which would leave you with no scientists, no way to do research, screwed). Or if you're spectacularly unlucky with natural disasters...",
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"body": "Yes. My wife would too. And for the record, I kicked ass at outpost. I had a colony that was set up well enough that it was still standing after skipping ahead 200 turns.",
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"body": "Do I get to wear a browncoat? \n\nAnd hell no if they use G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate in the air processors",
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"body": "Absolutely.\r\n\r\nThere's no guarantee of freedom, and it would probably be boring, but I'd be COLONIZING A PLANET.",
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"body": "I already volunteered to colonize a planet. This planet. No, I won't be doing that again anytime soon.",
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"body": "As long as my colony has a gender ratio of ten females to each male, with the women selected for their stimulating sexual characteristics; and no other colony is allowed to develope a mineshaft gap.",
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"body": "as long as we could start anew, and not have any ties to the fucked up systems we have in place now.\n\nplanet reddit?",
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"body": "It is kinda like war. It sounds cool and exciting until you really think about it. Hell no. I would guess a lot colonies do not survive.\n\n>How would you be sure that once you arrived on the new planet you wouldn't simply be considered a slave?\n\nMy weapons and and similarly armed fellow colonists.",
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"body": "Any colonization of another planet eventually leads to civil war. Once the colony is established, the colonizing planet will want a cut of the resources of the colony, and will be seen as more of an occupier than an ally. Eventually there will be a battle for independence, and this is something that a lot of people don't take into account when they sign up for a colonization mission.\n\nI'll bring my brown coat.",
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"body": "As long as my uniform was not a [red shirt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_%28character%29).\n\n",
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"body": "**A generation ship please.**\r\n\r\n[With the proper breeding techniques](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove_or:_How_I_Learned_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Love_the_Bomb) and a ratio of say, ten females to each male.\r\n\r\nIt is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.",
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"body": "i would hold out for one of the planets referenced in *bloom county*, either the planet of the moderately moral stenographers, or the planet heineken where the wolf-women enjoy nitrogen pudding baths. ",
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"body": "The Adventurer in me would cry out instantly \"Yes!\", but The Pragmatist in me would be more wary.\n\nFor the pros and cons of colonizing a planet, I recommend that you read Kim Stanley Robinson's [Mars triology](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy).\n\nEDIT: Formatting",
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"body": "I can picture it going all wrong and having to fight zombies and all other manner of humanly incubated alien creatures, deep in the abyss, so yeah sure, I'd go.",
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"body": "This was my daydream as a kid, before hormones made me dream of other things.\n\nI would be one of a few chosen kids to take a 20 year trip (at the speed of light, we'd reach our destination planet in our mid 20s). Man, I dreamed up soo many details about everything.... .. ah, nostalgia.",
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"body": "Fuck yes. Sign me up for that shit.\n\n> How would you be sure that once you arrived on the new planet you wouldn't simply be considered a slave?\n\nI'd be wary of an arrangement where you're just trusting some corporation to take you there and treat you fairly once you arrived. Would prefer to see some form or representative government planned for the new planet, and I'd probably bring a phaser with me (If they won't let you bring a personal weapon that's probably a warning sign right there). I'd definately risk it anyways, though.",
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"body": "I'd love to!\r\nThough I wouldn't have much to offer this colony... is trolling an employable skill?\r\n\r\nColonial overseer: \"I see your rickroll ratio is quite high, welcome aboard, mr Norris!\"\r\nMe: LOLZ",
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"body": "Depending on how it's implemented, but yes.\n\nHowever, if Earth's politics are going to dominate the colony - why bother?",
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"body": "This comment will merely be washed away in the already huge tidal wave of comments, but i would totally volunteer to colonize a planet. There would be some circumstances that would change my mind, and theres some things i would like to get done on earth before i leave it, like skydive and travel. If i were to go i'd like to wait until i was about 40's or 50's. I wouldnt mind being on a generation ship either, because i know i would be contributing the rest of my life toward helping humanity.",
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"body": ">How would you be sure that once you arrived on the new planet you wouldn't simply be considered a slave?\n\nI don't think you'd be a slave unless you were 1) shoved on the ship without being asked, and 2) were given no choice in your work (within the limited confines forced on you and your cohabitants by the realities of the situation) and 3) received no benefit from your work.\n\nYou might not have a lot of say in matters, but colonists usually don't. That's part of the grueling situation they must live through.",
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"body": "Is it one of those places where women would be *required* to have sex with me? For the good of the colony, or whatever.",
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"body": "Ever since I read the Lusitania Trilogy, which are the sequels to Ender's Game, I've wanted to help colonize another planet. Especially a planet with a sentient life form that we have to slowly learn from and also teach at the same time. I don't even want kids but I would have them if it were a condition to being one of those few.",
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"body": "If by \"colonize\" you mean start an intergalactic weed farming business, and baby making factory, then sign me up.",
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"body": "Marx may or may not be right about the eventual political system that comes to rule on Earth, but he is almost certainly correct in a cosmic scale.\n\nSome kind of peaceful socialist system is the only possible outcome for any civilisation that manages to venture very far from the its home planet. No other social/political system could succeed (long term) in colonising space. Capitalism is not a long term strategy (in a cosmological timescale).\n\nSo we would have nothing to fear from visitors to Earth. And the corrolary is that they would have nothing to fear from us because we could only ever visit them if we learned to live in peace with ourselves and other species.",
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Seeing a therapist hasn't helped me | Hi i've been suffering depression for as long as I can remember but it's got really bad now. A couple of years ago I had all the energy and motivation in the world and now I can barely be bothere brushing my teeth most days.
I feel so withdrawn from the world and feel that everyone is going about their lives and i'm just a spectator. I feel anxious about losing friends and not being able to make any more because of how low I am feelings. I really am fearful that people will reject me and not want to spend time with me, leaving me more and more alone.
I feel shit about myself because I find it hard to focuss at work and find it really hard to learn things and remember things. I feel like such a scatterbrain and as time goes on, i feel that i'm getting more and more behind
I just feel really helpless and lost. I've seen a psycologist, well seen a few actually and none of them have helped me, i find myself just talking during the sessions and not really achieving anything. I'm not exactly rich so I can't afford to be going back when it isn't helping me.
I can feel my life slipping away from me and i'm getting more and more scared by it. I don't know what to do. | 14 | [
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"body": "It wins only when you give up.\n \nUnfortunately (?!) the mental health pros have the most experience. You don't mention how many sessions you had or if you've tried any antidepressants - but there are substandard psychologists out there. Your experience so far may not be an accurate reflection of what could happen (that is, you're not beyond help - after all you're coherent and concerned enough to post here).\n\nReal friends won't disappear \"because of how low [you] are feeling\". Only a couple of your acquaintances will make the cut. Consider that this is not due to a shortcoming of yours. \n \nYou might want to get some blood work done. Some of the things you're noticing might have an organic cause.\n \nIf there's not a self-help group anywhere near you (Recovery Inc. used to focus on depression), and depending on the impact that past events may be having on your present-day life... you may find some helpful suggestions and tools in cognitive therapy (a popular book is \"Feeling Good\", by Robert Burns).\n \nRule out what you can - keep talking - and try to keep an open mind. You're not the only one, and please know that it can get better...",
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What music do you like to play when hooking up? | When I bring a girl back to my place, especially for the first time, I usually put some music on while we get busy -- problem is I never know exactly what to play.
I like to put music on because can help diffuse the potential awkwardness of a first hookup: it masks the noises of sucking face, clumsily changing positions, and struggling to take clothes off. Plus the beat kinda helps you get more in sync with each other. Problem is I can never settle on a genre. Jazz or R&B is too cliche. Hip hop or techno is too fast. Classical would just be weird.
Advice? | 6 | [
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"body": "I HATE THE TERM \"HOOKING UP\".\n\nIs it just a generational thing, or is it completely ambiguous? Whenever I hear younger people use this term, I'm confused. Is it sex? Is it kissing? Is it hanging out? WHAT IS IT???\n\nIf you mean sex, say that. If you mean making out, say that. If you mean dating, say that. \n\nFor godsake, please stop using this inane term.",
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Jimmy Kimmel absolutely destroys Jay Leno on the 10 at 10 | *The ongoing NBC battle*
Anyone else watching this?
Jimmy Kimmel just took 10 beautiful shots at Leno destroying him
**VIDEO HERE:** [Original Post, for credit where karma is due](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/aptya/jimmy_kimmel_absolutely_destroys_jay_leno_on_the/c0isjgl)
**Jay:** What's the best prank you ever did?
**Jimmy:** Well this one time, I told a guy that I was going to give him my show in five years and then right when I did, I took it away from him.
**Jay:** What's the things you fear the most?
**Jimmy:** Earthquakes. Volcanoes. This one time I had a nightmare that the NBC execs moved my show to 10.
Those are the only two I remember but it was just one after the other.
I'm sure the clip will be up soon, but it just aired.
**EDIT1:** (formatting)
Okay here's another one (it went something like this, forgive my faulty memory)
**Jay:** So, what's your secret to doing your impression of me?
**Jimmy:** Well, uh, I don't want to give away my secrets... but I'll share a few. The voice is a combination of Sylvester the Cat, Curly from the Three Stooges and Scrappy Doo. Kinda "Sufferin succotash, hey! what're you a wise guy? aiaiaiaiaiai". And uh this is for kids at home if you have a little bit of play-dough then you just need to make yourself a nice big Dudley-Do Right chin
Okay, here's a little preview clip of that one... but that's all that is up now..
[10 at 10: Jimmy Kimmel](http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/video/clips/ten-ten-with-jimmy-kimmel/1193081) | 1,241 | [
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"body": "A video link AND ongoing commentary at [gawker](http://tv.gawker.com/5448615/late-night-wars-jay-leno-turns-the-tables-and-bashes-conan-obrien-is-then-bashed-harder-by-jimmy-kimmel)\n\nEasily the best TV of the whole debacle.",
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"body": "> \"Listen, Jay, Conan and I have children—all you have to take care of is cars. I mean, we have lives to lead here. You've got $800 million, for God's sakes—leave our shows alone.\"\n\nHoooollly shit. If that didn't keep Leno up that night, I don't know what would.\n\n",
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"body": "I never watched Kimmel's show-- nothing against him, just never bothered, even though I always dug his comedy roast bits. After this, I added his show to the recording schedule immediately. For being a 10pm show, for it being the \"likeable\" Leno, etc.-- Jimmy did not hold back. Mad props.",
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"body": "Conan: \"Wow, how time flies. Do you realize that a baby born the day of our first Tonight Show is now... a slightly larger baby...\"\n\nMy *neighbor* may have heard me LOL to that one.",
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"body": "What the heck? Leno is sooo terrible. Every \"joke\" he made fell completely flat. That first crack about, \"oh look at the time, it's time for the next guest.\" Lame. The second crack about, \"oh look at my watch, 12am? I can't make it to your show.\" It's the same lame joke. 10@10 itself is tedious as hell with most celebrities he has on. I like [WSJ](http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/01/14/jay-leno-takes-it-on-the-chin-from-jimmy-kimmel/)'s take on Jimmy's takedown of Leno.",
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"body": "If Leno had even an ounce of class, he would publicly announce that he refuses to bump out Conan. \n\nSadly, this doesn't seem to be the case. ",
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"body": "\"Oh you mean like the way NBC ordered your show off the TV?\"\n\nWhat a marvelously adroit turn of phrase. That right there made Kimmel's stock rise exponentially for me.",
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"body": "holy fucking shit... Kimmel was amazing... I really hope that was genuine, but the skeptic in me is thinking that maybe Jay knows he looks like a dick and is trying to be victimized (not to mention the ratings boost for everyone involved)... nah. I'm liking Kimmel more and more. Get jay off the fucking TV already or move him to some bullshit channel like NBC family (does this exist?)",
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"body": "That segment with the \"Until we cancel it\" was spot on. NBC always releases a pretty decent show and then cancels it leaving the shows fans with brightly colored peacock blueballs. One that I can think of now would be the show \"Kings\". Best acting I've seen in a TV show in a while.",
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"body": "[Craig Ferguson](http://tv.gawker.com/5448615/late-night-wars-jay-leno-turns-the-tables-and-bashes-conan-obrien-is-then-bashed-harder-by-jimmy-kimmel) really captures the whole thing and wipes the floor with the lot of 'em' in the penultimate video lower down the page. ",
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"body": "This reminds me of when the writer's strike occurred and the relationship between conan and colbert.\n\nQuality TV all around.\n\n>NBC Lawyer Gang Bang:\n\n>The Backdoor Deals\n\nWas the best part I've seen from it yet.",
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"body": "This is all a big congolmerate ruse to give the 5 late night shows both material and a rating boost.\n\nGenius!\n\nAnd just like a good tv sitcom, at the end of the episode, everything is back to the way it was and the main character learned an important life lesson.",
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I straight up suck at tf2 - i can't hit anything - any way to get better at aiming? | It's so frustrating because I like this game very much. It feels like it's because I can't think quickly enough. The target is running around so quickly that I can't get my mouse on it. I'm not really new to it either - I've been playing for a month or two and have like 70-80 hours on it. I play spy usually because I can sometimes land backstabs, but I obviously need to be able to shoot as well.
Anyone else suck like this? When the action gets fast do you just get confused and kind of freeze up? Any advice on how to improve my aim and land more shots? I try to relax a little and take my time and aim, but if I slow down I'm just immediately dead. Arghh. | 9 | [
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"body": "Turn down mouse sensitivity so you can aim better especially if you're a scout. It's real easy to jack up sensitivity and then jerk all over the place trying to aim. Once you can hit people with mouse accel turned down, then increment it until you are comfortable. This will help you aim better.\n\nEdit to clarify. I meant mouse sensitivity under mouse options in game. LeiaShadow's advice is good too. I forgot about that.\n",
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"body": "This is fairly new, and there have been posts about it here. But you may not know about it.\n\nUnder options > multiplayer > advanced there are two checkboxes.\nOne for playing a sound whenever you do damage at an enemy. And one for displaying the damage done whenever you land a hit.\n\nTurn them on and see if it helps. \n\nI don't use the sound, because it's annoying. But the damage display is invaluable.",
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"body": "The biggest impediment to my aim I've noticed is impatience. I get into the heat of the moment in a firefight and want to hit so badly that I don't wait or line up at all, I just start clicking and wildly moving my mouse trying to get them. This always goes poorly. Take a deep breath, slow down, and aim through strafing. Fire when you're sure, don't take random shots; you'll just run out of ammo and die.",
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Any suggestions / pointers for someone writing software specs for the first time? | I'm a self-taught MS Access developer and do not claim to be a programmer (for fear of the mocking that would ensue when I said I knew VBA). Anyway, a small scale Access application I developed is going to be converted into a web application and I have been tasked with writing the software specs for it. I've read a couple general spec writing articles and feel confident I can get something on paper. I'm sure someone out there who has had to deal with the kind of nonsense I'm likely to churn out and can provide some pointers to save another programmer some headaches. Many thanks. | 10 | [
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"body": "Nearly all specs that I got to read could have been greatly improved by these two hints:\n\n- Specify the WHAT, NOT the HOW.\n\n- Think about all assumptions that you make, and then also specify what to do when they don't hold.",
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"body": "I think you need to start by defining what you mean by \"software specs\". Does this mean a requirement specification or a design specification? The two documents are very different.\n\nAs general advice for both: \n\n* Consider your target audience, and write to their level of technical expertise.\n\n* Although you may assume a certain level of technical expertise, DO NOT assume that the reader has domain knowledge. You'll want include a \"Definitions\" section in the beginning and define all terms that a new developer off the street may not know. \n\n* Have a proof reader that is in your target audience. Their goal isn't necessarily to fix typos (although that's nice), but rather to ensure they can easily understand what you've written.\n\n* Use version control. Specifications WILL change, so make sure you know which version you're on, and that everyone else is on the right version.\n\n* I recommend a wiki like MediaWiki for a free solution with version control. It automatically tracks changes, allows you to diff any two changesets, and has easy-to-learn syntax that provides nice, consistent formatting. Also, you can print to PDF for a nice result. However, this is probably overkill for such a small project.\n",
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"body": "Include a thorough motivation. The reader must not only know what you want, but also WHY you want it. That makes it more easy to understand, fill in gaps and find problems. For example, for a given problem, a reader might suggest a more appropriate solution than the one you suggested.\n\nAlso, very important, include a description of error handling. How shall the application behave when error X occurs? For example, when you specify that a value must conform to certain constraints, also include what should happen when the constraints are not met. Or, how shall the application behave when the hard disk is full? \n",
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[TOMT] Dance song that was later turned into rap song, had a sonar sound in the background. [Song] | I was listening to my radio a few months ago and heard a song I really enjoyed. It had a sonar sound effect, and would kind of restart every couple of minutes. Later I heard a rap song that had the same beat and sonar effect, so I assume it was a sample of the same song.
Anyone have an idea?
*Found* | 5 | [
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"body": "Just a wild guess, but is it [Calle Ocho/I Know You Want Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk) as one of the songs?",
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Hey Reddit, do you think it's unreasonable to ask for gas money when someone asks you on a whim to drive you a half hour(one way) across town so they can see their boyfriend? | So, this happened several months ago, but was brought up tonight in a conversation with one of my friends. Although I'm not friends with the person anymore, another one of my friends used to be roommates with her, and said that she called me a mooch for asking for gas money. I asked for $10, for gas and time spent. It's cheaper than a taxi, and faster than a bus, and she was the one complaining. Wtf?
So, do you think that is unreasonable? I don't in the least.
*edit, the title should've said "to drive them", not you. | 28 | [
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"body": "I think you are very reasonable, in fact you shouldn't have to ask they should have offered you money. ",
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"body": "Gas Grass or Ass my friend.\n\nSeriously though, I believe if you mention that you need gas money before the ride it is ok. If you spring it on them after offering a ride, and then act huffy when they have no money its different. ",
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"body": "Depends on your relationship and your wealth, I would't dream of accepting cash from a good friend for a favour of this size. But back in the day when I was poor it definitely would have been appreciated and accepted particularly if it is just an acquaintance.",
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"body": "I think common courtesy dictates that you should pay the gas money if the driver requests it. It's up to the driver as to whether or not he or she wants to collect, but it certainly isn't unreasonable to ask for compensation if the distance traveled or gas consumed was significant.\n\nIf you're an *especially* good passenger, you offer the gas money without being asked, but as far as my personal experiences, usually the driver has been the one to bring the topic up first.",
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"body": "A half hour?\n\nEh, imo, let it go... If its under an hour and I enjoy the company, I wont take money for it.... ",
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"body": "Should've just bartered: \"Weeeelll, I WAS going to cook dinner, but I'll drive you to your bf if you buy me dinner along the way.\" \n\nWhether or not you were actually going to cook dinner for yourself is immaterial.",
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"body": "This was completely reasonable on your part. I've had friends who I've known for years who would make sure they got paid for something like this. However, they'd normally do it by demanding I get them some good food or something. I think the only issue is that you asked for money. I'm not saying it is rational, but a lot of people who wouldn't pay you $10 cash would buy you a $10 meal.",
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"body": "The person who MOOCHES a ride across town from you, calling you a mooch?\n\nSounds pretty iffy, I dunno....",
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"body": "I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for gas money especially since it is a favour that leaves you going out of your way. \n\nSo long as you ask for the money as she's asking you to drive her. \n\nIf you agreed to it and drove her and then asked for gas money my opinion would change. ",
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"body": "Just say \"I would, but I'm running low on gas. Sorry.\"\n\nIf the ride matters that much, they should offer. If not, you can just go home. It probably wasn't that big of a deal.\n\nI'd avoid asking though. I don't mind driving good friends places though, so it's usually not a huge deal for me. They pay when it matters anyway.",
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"body": "That's illegal where I live. I'm dead fucking serious, asking for any compensation can be considered as offering an illegitimate taxi service.",
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"body": "You're cheaper than my rates for this stuff lol\n\nI'll tell people I want $15 for driving them a half hour.\n\nPeople who dont have a car never understand this and just assume those of us with vehicles are there to help them and that gas is still dirt cheap.",
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"body": "Ass, grass or cash is the rule. \r\n\r\nBut seriously, if you were going out of your way and really didn't want to give her a ride but you did anyway, then yeah, it's cool to ask for money. \r\n\r\nShe should have *offered* though since she was the one in need of a ride. ",
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[Request] My mum's hard drive died losing 1000s of pics, I need a hard drive to attempt a recovery.
| It was a seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80 Gbytes Model: ST380013AS. I cannot seem to find one in AU to buy as it is an old model. I have a stack of old hard drives of similar vintage on my desk, I thought some kind redditor might have one of these lying around they wouldn't mind donating to my cause, I can give you $ for postage and a small amount for the drive let me know what you think it is worth. | 16 | [
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"body": "I've heard that if your hard drive dies you can put it in the freezer and it *might* work again. Not sure where i heard that.\r\n\r\n\r\nhttp://www99.shopping.com/xPO-Seagate-Barracuda-7200-7-160-GB-ST3160021A",
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"body": "You don't say what the symptoms of your drive failure are, which might be useful since there is a great deal of expertise lurking here on reddit.\n\nAnd while it won't be helpful to you, now might be a good time to remind other redditors that *every* hard drive will fail *eventually*. So keeping something as irreplaceable as one's own photo collection on a single drive is *bound* to end in disaster. Tough words I know, but true.\n\nGood luck with recovering your data, I hope it works out.",
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"body": "Why do you need one of the same model? Can't you use file recovery toolkits without having identical drives?\n\nJust curious.",
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"body": "Why do you think you need another HDD of the same type? Unless you are thinking of disassembling it (don't) You should be able to copy the files to whatever you want provided you get it running long enough.\r\n\r\nOr do you just not have another large drive to put the pics on? ",
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I repaired this picture of my dad-in-law who died on Wednesday. He was an amazing dude (stories inside). | [Picture first.](http://imgur.com/euz0T.jpg)
I'm a self-taught Photoshop hack with no misconceptions about my skills. I've learned a few things from tinkering for several years. I'm interested in suggestions about how I could have done or could do a better job with this type of project. Mostly I clone stamped the shit out of all the scratches and discolorations. Then I adjusted the colors of the lake in the background.
Anyway, this is my father-in-law Ray, but I always called him Rayzor because he's that kind of dude. He has chased my wife's sister's deadbeat boyfriend from the house with an axe. He has also thrown hamburgers at a fast food employee who was an asshole to his wife. See a pattern? Rayzor was a rabid defender of his family, and a guy who didn't give a shit about the rules but always expected honesty from himself and others.
A favorite story:
Rayzor was driving home from a long day at work, and there was a group of 7 or 8 punk teens walking in a group in the middle of the street. He slowed down and tried to maneuver around the group, but they were in the way. Frustrated, Rayzor honked the horn. The teenagers laughed and one of them gave him the finger.
So Rayzor gets out of the car, all kinds of pissed off and asks what the hell is going on. The kids start talking smack to him, and he's talking smack back to them. They expected to intimidate a single adult up against the lot of them, but they never met my dad-in-law before.
He's going back and forth with them, and they start to get nervous. One of the punks, frightened, says, "You better stop yelling and fighting with us, or else I'm going to tell my dad about it."
Rayzor chuckles, and he says, with increasing volume, "Oh? You see that house right there? That yellow one on the corner? That's *my* house. You tell your dad to come on over, and I will *FUCK* him in his *ASS*!"
The teens immediately scurried and Rayzor went home to relax. A little while later, a cop knocks on the door. He says there was a report that Rayzor was threatening sexual violence against someone in the neighborhood. Rayzor smiles and says, "I have no idea what you're talking about." The cop smiles and winks, and says, "That's what I thought. I figured those punk kids were making things up."
So anyway, Rayzor smoked unfiltered cigs his whole life and he was diagnosed with throat and lung cancer three years ago. It was a miserable three years of tracheotomy-chemotherapy-wasting away. He passed away yesterday morning with the family at his side. I still can't quite believe it. I was sure he was invincible.
So I'll look forward to some Photoshop tips, but I'll also be glad to tell a few more stories if anyone cares to hear them, and hear other people's stories that arise from personal connections. | 237 | [
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"body": "New years eve the year I started dating his daughter. I think it was 2002. Rayzor and his wife had 5 kids so there was always a lot of action, and there was a party going on at their house. We'd spent some time together, and it was awesome. He was a guy who could slap you on the back and make you feel so happy you were his buddy.\n\nWe'd been making the rounds at his house during the party, and there were a lot of people I didn't know. At one point, in the kitchen, Mrs. Rayzor whispered that he ought to introduce me because people wouldn't know who I was.\n\nRayzor cleared his throat, and put his hand on my shoulder. He proclaimed, with a twinkle in his eye, \"This is the guy who's fucking my oldest daughter!\" It brought the house down.\n\nLater, Mrs. Rayzor tried to apologize for the incident, but I assured her that wasn't necessary. It was exhilarating to hang out with my future dad-in-law, who frequently sidestepped social expectations.",
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"body": "My wife, Katy, when she was little (about 3 or 4) was at the grocery store with her mom. Her mom is a free spirit, and she was doing the thing where you take a running start and then jump on the back of the cart and ride for a while. Well, something went wrong, a wheel got turned around or something and the cart hopped and stuttered and little Katy fell out and the cart ran over her finger.\n\nIt was smashed pretty bad (it's scarred and sort of flat to this day). They rushed to the emergency room and called Rayzor on the way. He got there and they started moving Katy into the surgery room. She was screaming, \"Daddy! Daddy!\"\n\nThey got to the door and Rayzor was coming along, and the nurses said, \"Sir, nobody is allowed beyond this point except the patient.\"\n\nKaty was still screaming for her daddy, and Rayzor said, \"The hell I'm not. Listen to her. You're letting me in or you can go ahead and call the cops.\"\n\nThere was a beat, and the nurses sighed and looked at each other. Then they just handed him a gown, which he quickly put on.",
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"body": "One night, we went to a sort of hole-in-the-wall bar. We were drinking beers with a few of us, and then Rayzor revealed to me that they maintained a freezer in the back of the bar with all kinds of seafood and delicacies.\n\nHe told me, \"Let's get some lobster tails!\" I was all for it, and we walked out of there with several of them.\n\nThe next day, the ladies in the household had something going on at the mall. Rayzor gets out the lobster tails and we start cooking them up. He offers me a beer, and we drink a beer. Then, he sifts through the mail and pulls out a netflix envelope, with Dawn of the Dead inside.\n\nIt was, along with getting married and the birth of my daughter, one of the best days of my life. We ate lobster, drank beer, and watched tons of zombies getting their heads blowed off. Fuck yeah.",
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"body": "Rayzor took his kids to the local water park one day. They rode some slides, and eventually they decided to brave the Banzai. It's the one that goes straight down and you're supposed to curl a mat around you like a hot dog, I think every water park has one.\n\nAnyway, Rayzor says, on the way up, that he's not going to use a mat. He doesn't want one. His kids say, \"Dad, you have to. They're not going to let you on without one.\" And he just keeps moving forward, and doesn't take a mat when you're supposed to take one.\n\nThey get to the top of the stairs, and everyone's getting kind of nervous. At an opportune time, when he's near the front, Rayzor leaps/dives down the Banzai without a mat. It's a jerky ride, and his sunglasses snap into pieces on the way down. When he stands up at the bottom, there's blood running down his face where the glasses cut him up.\n\nThere were water park staff on the scene instantly. They were being super nice because they were worried about a law suit occurring or something like that. Rayzor waved them off. No problem. He had gotten the crazy ride he hoped for.",
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"body": "Here's why we all thought he was invincible. He'd been through catastrophic injuries and come through the other side, no problem, a few times before.\n\nHe was paving the driveway and, I don't know much about how it works, but he was using a machine that has to heat the asphalt up very hot. There was some sort of trouble getting it up and running, and while he was working on it the thing blew up on his chest, arms, and face. He had to be airlifted to a university hospital, and my wife and I (dating at the time) lived near there. We hustled there and actually arrived at his room before they brought him in. We greeted him when he arrived and man, he was in rough shape. They were helping him in and I don't think he could see at all at that time. All the hair was burned off his head and arms and his skin was burnt up pretty bad. It was scary as hell, but Rayzor made a complete recovery after some time.\n\nAnother time, he was part of a crew who was cutting down a monster tree in a local park. He was standing near the tree, probably entertaining some fellas with a joke or a story, when somebody up top sawed off a huge branch. It fell straight down and landed on top of Rayzor's head. He had a hard hat on, and the hat got *split* into two pieces. Rayzor's head was split pretty bad, too, and he was knocked out for a few minutes.\n\nAgain, they rushed him to the hospital. This time by ambulance. We got there and they were getting ready to work on him. We stood just inside the room as they came in, and they stapled his head shut. He grimaced and grunted at each loud *CHKK* of the stapler, but he didn't cry out. After about 6 of these, though, he turned to the nurse guy and said, \"You're done. You're done.\" The guy said they were close enough and that would probably be fine.\n\nThen, a few minutes later another nurse walks in and says, \"They're going to be coming in to staple the wound shut soon, so I'm going to give you a local anesthetic there.\" We were aghast. He had sat through getting his scalp stapled with this industrial/medical stapler thing, with no pain killer at all. Incredible.\n\n**Edit:** Mrs. Rayzor reminded me that he was the boss of the crew that was cutting down that tree. He wasn't required to go out and work like that, though he'd been on the crew in the past. Rayzor, though, was adamant that he would never ask his guys to go out and do something without him working at their side. So he didn't even have to be there that day. It's almost like someone was going to take a shot to the head that day, and Rayzor went out there and took it for his guys.",
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"body": "I'm sorry for your loss, genuinely, but thanks for sharing those stories. Ray reminds me of my dad, who died in the summer. My father killed himself (something some members of the family don't want \"out there\", so this isn't my usual account) and I've been so stunned for so long that I've felt literally nothing about it until I opened this thread. Now I'm bawling my eyes out. Half of me thinks I coulda lived without suddenly feeling THIS... but most of me is incredibly grateful. If there was ever a man who'd enjoy the prospect of a good old fashioned Irish wake, Ray sounds like he would've been the guy. What a lucky guy you are, to have had him.",
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"body": "after reading your story and checking your pic: I think you have the perfect pic and the perfect set of memories... I wouldnt change a thing :) ",
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"body": "More stories!\n\nThis type of guy is a disappearing breed, we need more people like him, not less. \n\nSorry for your loss. ",
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"body": "You did a great job, actually.\n\nYou can fix discoloration by adding a new layer, set to Color mode, and cloning from an area of the same color. That will preserve the lightness, but fix the color. This would help with the chin, where the color is wrong, but the texture is ok.\n\nTo fix minor scratches, make a copy of the layer, do the Dust and Scratches filter on that copy, and then selectively apply the filtered part to the original image. Mostly by erasing everything BUT the fixup area from the top \"fixed\" layer. This is because doing dust and scratches everywhere has a tendency to blur hair and dim eye glints and such, so it's best used selectively if possible.\n\n\nYour father in law sounds awesome.",
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"body": "Finally created an account just to respond to this post. Guys like Rayzor are what legends are made of. He will be long remembered. *throws back a shot of whiskey*",
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"body": "Calling yourself a self-taught Photoshop hack makes me feel bad about calling myself one. All I can do is color in black-and-white photos. I wish I knew how to do clone stamping.\n\nSorry about your dad-in-law, he seemed like a cool guy.\n\nMore stories, if you have the time, please.",
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"body": "Sorry to hear about your loss. Glad you are remembering him with these great stories and sharing them with us. All the best to you and your family and great job on the pic, couldn't do much better myself! ",
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"body": "Reading your stories about this Rayzor gentleman it becomes apparent that his death was not only a loss to you and your family, but to humanity as a whole. The world needs more people like this.",
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"body": "This is awesome. For some reason he reminds me of my friend's dad who apparently introduces himself to his son's friends by unexpectedly grabbing their balls. Luckily I have yet to face such an introduction.\n\nI was also really happy that I came here to downvote any assholes complaining about posts like these and couldn't find any!\n\nI am sorry for your tremendous loss, and happy for your tremendous ability to cope with it in such a touching way.",
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"body": "Your story reminds me of my best friends dad who recently passed. He was blunt, always brutally honest, and joked with everyone but always would do anything for his family or friends. He had a saying about beer that will stick with me until the day I die...\"why grab a Heine when you can grab a Busch.\" ",
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Anyone learn Japanese writing systems? | I am taking Japanese in Uni, and we are learning the three systems. I have so far learned Katakana to the point I can read it, and recognize all the character.
Hiragana is waaaaaaaaay harder. I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to better memorize it? This class moves fast, and it is a bit overwhelming...
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"body": "て looks like a \"te\"nnis ricket - に looks like a knee - け looks like a \"ke\"g - くlooks like a bird going \"coo\" - きlooks like a key - しlooks like \"she\"'s got long hair - たactually looks like 't+a' - とlooks like a \"toe\" with the nail bent back - ぬlooks like \"noo\"dles - ひlooks like \"he\"'s smiling - ふlooks like Mt. \"Fu\"ji - みlooks like 21, the age when it's all about \"me\" - むlooks like a cow going \"moo\" - もyou catch \"mo\"re fish with worms on your hook - らlooks like the profile of a \"ra\"bit - りlooks like \"ree\"ds in a pond\n\nI used to have a menmonic for most all of them, but I've long forgotten the rest. Best of luck!\nEdit: formatting didn't come out like I expected",
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Another question: How can I join the IRC? [5] | Thanks, and sorry for the n00b questions but the IRC info on the side doesn't tell me what to do with it..
EDIT: *Facepalm* haha I'm going to change that to a [7] I didn't notice I could click on it. | 6 | [
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"body": "Easiest / quickest way is to click here: [http://webchat.freenode.net/](http://webchat.freenode.net/)\n\n 1. \"Nickname:\" - Enter any nickname you want\n 2. \"Channels:\" - #weedit (don't forget to include the \"#\" symbol)\n\nIt's good to ask and good to know. :)",
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Men of reddit: Where do you like to finish? | I know that we girls have our preferences where spunk ends up, but where, if you had your way, with no negative backlash, would you most want to finish? | 9 | [
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"body": "I prefer to bake a nice cake before the act, Maybe a nice Vanilla cake or even make a series of cupcakes.\n\nI like to finish on the cakes or cupcakes and then feed them to my lover. \n\nAlso good is Pizza.",
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"body": "Inside her. I also really like when they do this in porn, too (I believe it's called a \"creampie\"). Before sex was part of the equation, I'd feel really awkward about cumming on her, so I'd always keep my boxers on so that I could whip it back inside and cum in there. It was weird. Then one time she finally basically forced me to cum in her mouth during a blow job, but then spent the next ten minutes coughing and sputtering (I think it went up her nose :/) which just reinforced my insecurity about cumming anywhere but my boxers. Once we started having sex an I could cum inside her, though, everything was gravy.\n\nSo to speak.",
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"body": "Male Redditor's Opinion: ::as if it was an obvious answer:: inside?\n\nFemale Redditor's Opinion: He has the green light to finish anywhere he wants except the face (mouth okay)! My personal favs are mouth, tummy, chest and **my** pussy.",
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"body": "I love finishing inside, whichever hole I'm doing at the time. Being swallowed is an amazing turn on.",
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"body": "The best \"location\" to finish is, IMO, her mouth. Everywhere else is too messy, with the cum dripping off, but the mouth, it's just soooo clean, and soooo sexy (feels dominant for male, and submissive for female, something we both (most of us) like).",
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DAE open new tabs obsessively on EVERYTHING? | Like if I'm on a forum, if I wanted to see a post I'd middle-click it, then when im done reading that, I'd close it so that it saves me time so that i won't have to reload the previous page by clicking 'back' :P I open new tabs on everything | 59 | [
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"body": "The last time I was on [TV tropes](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage) I ended up with about 25 tabs open.",
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I'm agnostic and falling for a very religious girl | I met this girl in class and immediately liked her; she's quirky and sarcastic and loving and cerebral. I asked her out to coffee once, and it was one of the most fun, insightful nights I've ever shared with anyone. But it was somewhat dampened by the fact that niether of us had declared romantic intent, so nothing really came of it.
Finally a while ago I was drinking with my pals and whoever was my handler that night lapsed for a moment and let me touch a computer. I proceeded to send her a message confessing my crush. The next day, much to my surprise, she sent me back a beautifully worded missive telling me about how awkward she is with guys and how much she enjoyed the coffee date and how we might work were it not for the fact that she and just about everyone she knows are very religious and I am, for lack of a better word, a heretic.
I'm sure there's probably no good way of defusing this and turning the situation in to one in which we can persue a relationship because both of us respect the other and the other's beliefs far too much to ever attempt converting them (the funny thing is that we, for the most part, believe very much the same things -- just label them differently). But I thought I would at least give the fine folks of reddit a try and see if you guys have any advice. Or downvotes for asking stupid questions, I'm not really in the position to complain.
Also: Sorry for the spelling errors, if any. I'm cold, it's late, and apparently Epiphany doesn't have a spellchecker. | 5 | [
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"body": "Don't worry about changing her beliefs, (you can't do it). If you really like her, and respect her beliefs (she can't change for you either.) \n\nRealizing from the start that this is a boundary is a good way to start a relationship. \n\n\n",
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"body": "I never understood why spiritual beliefs (or lack of) matter in a relationship. You even state:\n>we, for the most part, believe very much the same things -- just label them differently\n\nUnless you're already thinking about how to raise the kids...\n\nIt seems like the only problem you would have is if one of you began to push your beliefs on the other. In which case, you would probably find this trait (pushiness, controlling attitude) to be unbearably unattractive anyway.\n\n",
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Does anyone else lie to their psychologist? | [This is a new account, as friends from life know my other account]
So... does anyone else do this? I generally don't lie to him, but sometime leave out details. Most of the thing's I lie about/don't mention are things which I have learned to deal with myself: For example, I became near-anorexic for a time, but told people the loss was due to a illness. I told myself this enough times that I was actually able to gain weight again. I've noticed that for topics like this, not thinking about it makes me feel better, so I don't tell him about it.
Still, it seems completely, completely wrong that I can't tell a PSYCHOLOGIST the complete truth.
Thoughts/input? Thanks in advance SW. | 9 | [
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"body": "Sometimes the things we fear most about ourselves are the things we are less willing to disclose. I encourage you to tell your psychologist everything (unless of course you're uncomfortable with him, in which case switch).You said you became near anorexic but told friends it was due to an illness. It really sounds like you're trying to convince yourself it was an illness when in fact it wasn't as well. You have nothing to loose by telling him these details. And if anyone can help you with these issues, if in fact they do come back, it's him. ",
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GoDaddy renewal email contains links to bypass the login | I received an email at my job that the store's domains had expired and needed to be renewed. There was a link to renew the domains. I clicked it and was about to track down the store's password, but when the page loaded, it never prompted me to login, just took me to the list of subscriptions, including the active ones I could have discontinued if I was malicious or a disgruntled person.
I didn't dig too deep to see what else I could screw with, but this seems like a very bad process for domain hosting security. | 5 | [
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"body": "Got a similar email, tested it...\n\nYou can renew your domain if you have your payment details without logging in. But you cannot access the domain manager without logging in.\n\nSeems like Godaddy have realized that in companies, its usually not the same people that handle payment and the technical details.\n\nSo basically, if anyone were to intercept that unencrypted email... they'd be able to renew my domain for me, not much else.",
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Reddit Cricket Census! | Which cricket team is most popular here? Where are most reddit cricket fans from? If you answer these questions, then we can find out! You don't have to answer every question if you don't want to.
* 1) Where do you live?
* 2) What is your nationality?
* 3) Age?
* 4) Favourite international cricket team?
* 5) Tests, ODI or 20/20?
* 6) Favourite player ever?
* 7) Which player do you hate most?
* 8) Favourite cricket moment?
* 9) Do you like the IPL?
* 10) If you play, are you a bowler, batsman or all-rounder?
Also, say something more about yourself if you want.
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"body": "* 1) Washington DC, USA\n* 2) Australian\n* 3) 27\n* 4) Australia\n* 5) Tests are my favourite, but I like all competitive cricket\n* 6) Shane Warne\n* 7) Michael Clarke\n* 8) Aus vs SA tie in the 1999 World Cup Semi final \n* 9) Yes, very much\n* 10) All-rounder (I'm equally bad at batting and bowling)\n\nI am a scientist who likes photography and computers.",
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"body": "1. USA\n2. India\n3. \\\n4. \\\n5. Tests, tests, tests!\n6. Lara\n7. Tough one. I can ignore boorish behavior if the bloke is talented (Miandad, Sreesanth etc), but tend to dislike overrated players. Zaheer Khan is a name that jumps up right now - he's got marginal talent but absolutely no cricketing brain.\n8. Lara's 150 vs Aus to win; Waugh's 120 vs SA to win in *the* match of the 99 wcup (not the SF, which only got good in the end).\n9. Emphatic no.\n10. \\\n\nedit: fuck markdown\n\n",
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"body": "1. England\r\n2. English\r\n3. 46\r\n4. England\r\n5. Tests of course\r\n6. Beefy\r\n7. Hate? Steady on old chap, I'm English you know\r\n8. Bob Willis's 8-for, Ashes '81 (or possibly Johnners' mad moment on TMS)\r\n9. No\r\n10. Strictly a spectator",
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Girlfriend says she has no fantasies or kinks. Help! | I've been going out with my girlfriend for about 5 years. We're both 25. Everything is great about our relationship and we have a good sex life.
The only real issue I have is she says she has no sexual fantasies and she says she doesn't get turned on by anything beyond regular stuff like oral, rubbing and sex. This might not be something to worry about, but it makes me ponder. I'd like to be able to show how much I care for her and impress her by acting out her fantasies. Doing this would also make me feel better about doing the same with my own fantasies. I'd also like her to explore her boundaries more.
We've tried reading books together, watching movies and going over lists of fetishes and I can't find anything she's in to or give her ideas of things she'd like to try. She just acts indifferent to many ideas (like new positions, bondage, roleplay, toys, dirty talk) and doesn't make any moves to introduce anything new. Any advice?
I know people are going to suggest that she has kinks but just isn't ready to open up to me yet. All I can do in ensure you that we're very close and that I've very sure this is not the case.
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"body": "My ex-bf used to push the \"TELL ME YOUR FANTASIES\" thing all the time. I totally got that he just wanted to please me and all but it did get irritating. It was never a case of me not being exposed to certain things (yay internet for desensitizing me to diaper/furry/vore fetishes).\n\nFor me, all the fetish and fantasy is just *bullshit distraction from the raw awesomeness of sex*. I find it all pretty unnecessary. Yes, you can try to whisper \"dirty\" things in my ear but if it sounds like you're in a bad porn it's just distracting and I WILL laugh at you (telling me where you're going to put your cock is retarded; I know where it goes and I will put it there, unless maybe I want it somewhere else, and then I'll put it *there*). I don't care about the costumes, the situations, the power struggle. It's complicating an act that is beautiful in its simplicity. What matters most is that you can make me feel good and I get to do the same for you.\n\nIt's just as rough to get taken seriously for not really having any fantasies in particular as it is when you pop boners sticking knitting needles through your nutsack.\n\nThat said, though, maybe introduce little things one a time, since indifference seems a better than straight opposition. Get some little wrist restraints or a vibe, because hey, if you got 'em you might as well try 'em out. Just because she doesn't feel strongly drawn toward anything in particular doesn't mean she won't enjoy it anyway.",
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"body": "Maybe she doesn't have anything she wants to express that she isn't already. This means she is a clean slate. You get to create the kinks by indulging your own. The more she enjoys your deviance, the more she will start to crave it. If it is lurking there and she didn't want to tell you for whatever reason, then you trying things will encourage her to speak/act up. If you don't have anything you want to try, then there is no reason to go searching.",
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"body": "She's too young. Dan Savage says all the time that Woman often don't develop real kinks or fetishes until they're closer to 30.\n\nIt may be she's just vanilla, but she must have some sort of fantasy to share, ThrowawayBob has some good ideas.",
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Two of the hottest Lesbian videos I know | Both of these are from the same series "The Thornhill Diaries" or something, about girls at a private college or something.
http://www.xvideos.com/video173425/lexi_belle_and_tori_black
This first one has Lexi Belle (Fucking hot as hell) and Tori black in some of the nicest lesbian action I've seen, it's long, but definitely worth a gander
http://www.xvideos.com/video105939/field_of_schemes
This next one shows two girls I'm not to familiar too, but just as good action and just about as long too.
Pretty nice eh?
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"body": "The second video is excellent due to its lack of 'pornstar' quality. Thanks for the link. I just viralized it within my network of lesbo lovers. The innocent/aggressive act is pulled off quite well here which adds substantial interest to what I consider a quite boring genre (g/g).",
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Shreddit, where do you get your info on upcoming metal concerts? | Where do you find out what shows are coming up? Other than some poor websites, the only way I've been able to reliably find upcoming concerts is to go to individual myspace pages of bands I listen to.
Are there any good, comprehensive live metal sites that I should know about? | 3 | [
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"body": "Walls of local record stores. No, seriously, it's better than the metal press.\n\n* Sound Exchange\n* Vinal Edge\n* Soundwaves\n\n",
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"body": "I use last.fm's events listing. It's not exclusively metal but it does offer recommended shows based on your listening habits. ",
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Steam give-away thread. | OK, a thread for generous redditors to give away those extra copies of games you have, especially after the Steam sale.
I have:
1 x Half-Life 2,
2 x HL2:Episode 1,
1 x HL2: Episode 2
First in first served, and to be fair only 1 game per person. I know it sucks a bit that it's the HL2 collection but I know there are folks out there that need to play Eps 1 & 2.
EDIT: All gone sorry folks but if anyone else feels generous and wants to add to the thread, go for it. | 34 | [
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"body": "I am in possession (well, as much as you can possess a non-downloaded game) of 1 extra copy of HL2. First response gets it. :D",
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"body": "Wow, I just signed in to give away my two gift copies of L4D, and they're GONE. WTF? Now I get to go through the Steam support process, which as far as I can tell by the extra accounts I have to set up, is going to suck.\n\nDoes anyone have advice on how to deal with this more quickly?",
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"body": "Everyone stop requesting, it just creates clutter.\n\nI got a quest pass to CS:S and TF2-who wants em?",
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DAE love the feeling when someone plays with your hair? | This is totally contingent on you being someone who doesn't have a perfectly coiffed or heavily styled hairstyle and hate people messing it up. | 136 | [
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"body": "I'm a dude and I love it.\n\nI love it when girls start playing with my hair for no reason.\nOr for reason.\nI love the process of haircuts, independent of whether the haircut turns out well or not.\nIf a girl comments on my hair, I even encourage her to touch it. \nIt's usually not sexual for me (although it can be), it just *feels so good*",
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"body": "This is on my list of top five reasons to find a girlfriend, right after \"smooching.\"\n\nI am very lonely.\n\nBut I have lovely hair!",
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"body": "Ok, warning, this could get a little gross.\n\nIf you are in a relationship with someone, there is one way that you can really tell that they care about you,\n\nGrooming\n\nAnd I don't just mean hairbrushing, any grooming that they can help you with, washing your back, clipping toenails. And the tell all of love, popping pimples. If your significant other will gladly pop your zits, they love you.",
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Add the ability to sort a users personal comments by karma. | It would be interesting to see what a users highest ranking comment is, I didn't really feel like flicking through all my pages just to work out which comments had given me the most karma.
Also good when you go to other users profiles, you can see their comic gems or inciteful (yes, inciteful) posts. | 27 | [
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"body": "Indeed. Or sort the same way that comments on any one submission are sorted - best, top, new, old, and controversial. ",
"score": 4
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"body": "There's an external comment search engine that does this, I've been looking for the link for a couple days actually, anyone know where it is? (I originally saw it in the secret santa sub)",
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[7] I smoked up two strangers tonight. | It was cool. I was talking to some fellow longboarders. This is the first nice night we've had in a while. When I was talking they rolled up and we all just started talking about boarding. That was cool because I had just smoked about 1/3 of a bowl 5 minutes before. We all split off but the latter set of guys followed me up a hill. We we talking and one of the guys said "smoking." I asked if they smoked and they said yes.
We went all the way down the hill and ended up in a really small amphitheater with only like 3 rows and is 12 feet across. It's like an outdoor classroom. I revealed the Wingman, which is my new chillum. It was still pretty full so we each took a hit, exchanged numbers, and skated off in opposite directions.
I hope all of you have the opportunity to smoke up a stranger. It's pretty fun. | 3 | [
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"body": "One time I passed a joint to a stranger in traffic.\n\nI have kind of a trademark called the \"surprise jay\" in my circle of buds, so while we're smoking I always have an extra jay in my pocket. We rolled up to a red light and my friend said, \"someone's lookin at us.\" I turned to look over and the car next to us was pointing and making a smoking expression, so I flashed them a thumbs up and we all kinda laughed. Then I start making a rolling-down motion and they lowered their window and I tossed the jay into their back seat. The light turned green and we drove off. :)\n\n[8]",
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"body": "I met some new people a few days ago. Stories not as interesting, some rich kids throwing a house party and my best friend went to high school with them. \n\nThe cool part was the dude who's house it was (he's in college, so his parents are the rich ones lol).\n\nHe's asian (not really relevant, but it might shed light on the next point) and of a rather small and scrawny stature. But he was so damn confident of everything. He pulled me aside after I smoked him and another dude out and we just talked, about our futures and the present. I haven't met someone that outgoing and friendly in a heck of a long time. He didn't let people drive home drunk (he told me about a super smash bros. tourney he went to and the person who one was killed on the way driving home from a drunk with a bac of .35 driving on the wrong side of the highway without his headlights on) and people listened to him and respected him.\n\nWe'll be hanging out soon\n\n/end lame story\n\ntl;dr I made a friend smoking people out.",
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Hello everyone back in Ireland, is the country still f*cked? | I have no intention of returning to Ireland but any time I'm talking to people back home they say there's no sign of the economy picking back up, everyone is miserable and they government haven't a clue what they are doing, Is this true or are they exaggerating? | 14 | [
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"body": "The rate of job loses has slowed. The banks are still in a mess and look to be a bottomless pit of loses. We haven't even hit the anticipated wave of customer debt default nor it seems has the government accounted for it in it's recapitalisation or NAMA figures.\n\nWe still have two more budgets of big tax increases and savage austerity programs. We are really just running to stay still at the moment praying for a speedy recovery worldwide. If we don't get that or this turns out to be a double dip recession I really fear for this country.",
"score": 9
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"body": "You're questioning a Fianna Fáil government not having a f*cking clue how to find their arse with both hands and a map?\n\nWow, you've obviously been gone too long.",
"score": 9
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"body": "The government royally fukked up (and continue to do so today... [e.g.](http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/david-mcwilliams/david-mcwilliams-were-being-robbed-by-our-supposed-protectors-2010941.html)) - but lest we forget, we voted them in time and time again and as a lot of \"us\" citizens got a bit greedy, spoiled and short-sighted during the boom time I think the government \"we\" voted in are a fair representation of the people and what they wanted.\n\nRe: everyone's miserable: Unemployment is running at about 14% so obviously that's a bit shitty but I don't think we're the only country with those problems at the moment. I've friends and family who were laid off, took pay cuts or 4 day weeks but they're all in good spirits and no one's going cold or hungry. Far from it. They're all making the most of it really: meeting up with each other for lunch or whatever, exercising, some taking the opportunity to do courses in work that they've always wanted, one mate just started his own mechanic business, etc. \n\nMoney is definitely tighter now but for the vast majority the quality of life hasn't really degraded. Personally, I'm better off than I've ever been. Wages is the same but mortgage is a few hundred less at the mo and cost of living is down 5%.\n\nSo, no everyone's not miserable. We're actually quite lucky here. It is frustrating that we could actually be in a really good position right now ... but we blew that. Anyway, some people delight in being miserable -so even they can't *really* claim to be miserable!",
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"body": "Down south alcohol costs a fortune. It's ridiculous. Economy wise I'm not too sure. Property slumped and is still quite bad; but obviously I'm not expert on this.",
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do you find yourself NOT playing online because you're a girl? | not only are my skills just not up to paar with the mass of online players, but i would never put a headset on because i don't want them to know i'm a girl. is that weird? | 13 | [
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"body": "I feel like RPG's it's not so big a deal to be a girl because they're more common in that genre. Otherwise you're constantly met with weird attitudes/responses (flirty/creeper \"pics\", putting down, not taking srsly, etc). I don't think it's weird at all to go sans headset. Sometimes I wish I could more because it's hella fun sometimes. I just get tired of the repetition of responses to being a chick. \n\nRegarding skills, just practice until you get better. Sometimes chicks have better lives/social lives or other occupations-- at least moreso than some gamers, so maybe they don't get as good sometimes? Sometimes I wonder if boys have more innate skill at all in certain games or if it's cultural upbringings.",
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"body": "I've gotta agree with lingrush. I generally play RPGs and the male / female ratio isn't nearly as skewed in that genre as in, say, FPS games. (In FFXI, I'd say about 1/3 of the people in my linkshell were girls.) The only real issue I ever had in FFXI was guys following me around sometimes (read: stalking) once they figured out I was a girl... but that's what the blacklist is for. \r\n\r\nI will say this - I am NOTORIOUSLY, laughably bad at FPS, and as a result I won't ever play an online one - but it would be the same if I were a guy. (I like playing them sometimes just to laugh at myself.)",
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"body": "I can understand how you feel about using a headset. When I first started using one I felt very awkward and timid. At the time, I was playing l4d and not having a mic was getting really annoying.\n\nNow i use it comfortably. When I can, I use it minimally, but some games like l4d2 scavenge, versus, or expert campaign, requires you to be a bit more engaged. In fact, I've seen it happen several times, if you don't have a mic they kick you. \n\nOf course, when i'm playing with friends I'm much more relaxed with the mic use.\n\nAnyhow, If you get out there and use the mic, you will grow comfortable with it. If that's not your thing, or you're playing games that don't really require a mic, don't worry about it. :)",
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"body": "I'd personally not really want to converse with the majority of the populous of most online games, and I'm a guy. They aren't usually the most pleasant of conversationalists. \n\nI don't think it's very odd. Have you considered just playing sans headset?",
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"body": "I do have a headset, for when I play with friends, but I shut up in most public games. Personally, I wouldn't say it's because I'm a girl, though that does factor into my decision somewhat. I'm just a very private/shy person, so I'm not the type to enjoy the thought of dozens of strangers, particularly strangers who are destroying me in game or on the leaderboards, hearing my voice. :) I know guys who don't talk much as well, so it's definitely not weird for anyone to be silent.",
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Hey Reddit, I found a way to get 3D support in games for pretty much free. | Ok, so I found my "Guinness Book of World Records 2009" which came with this cheesy 3D section. I figured I'd try out the glasses with a game (TF2, Battlefield 2 and Battlefront 2).
I searched around and found a company that specializes in 3D monitors and glasses, however they allow you to run their software. It's designed for their fancy goggles and screens, but it supports the classic "Blue and Red" glasses for free. It's a bit of a pain to set up, but can get some real nice effects going once you get it just right.
[Software Location](http://www.iz3d.com/driver)
Do a full install during the installation, and open the control panel. Under directX set it to Anaglyph, and "Red and Cyan".
When you launch a game it'll go through a crazy wizard thing that really doesn't help much, but allows you to figure out the hot-keys and settings.
Oh, and I don't suggest using Autofocus, games with crazy effects like Battlefield 2 (after you die and your lying on the ground, or a near hit with an explosion) really 'eff it up fierce.
I tested it out with TF2, Battlefront II, Counterstrike, and Battlefield 2. It worked amazingly in Battlefront II, space battles were freaking epic. Battlefield 2 was pretty awesome too, but my framerate was pretty low. I couldn't really get it to work 100% in counterstrike, and it was quite difficult to tell who's who, but I didn't tinker around with it to much. TF2 was the best looking in 3D, but the framerate hit was quite large.
I hope this comes in handy for someone! | 45 | [
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"body": "You don't need this if you have an nvidia card. Just open up the NVidia control and panel and enable 3d. I actually ordered some glasses earlier tonight to try this out. $3 (for 3 pairs) is definitely worth giving this a look.\n\nWith an nvidia card, this works on all games (more or less). There's also a small performance hit as well. Also... without glasses, you can't see shit. So hit Ctrl-T to switch between normal and 3d mode.",
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"body": "Try these.\n\nhttp://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23120\n\nhttp://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.23163",
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For those re-watching the show how far in are you? | I just started with season 1 last week and I'm hoping to finish all 5 seasons in time for the premiere! | 16 | [
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"body": "This Christmas i decided to treat myself and upgrade my old pice of junk 27 inch CRT tube TV to a full blown 64 inch HD plasma from pansonic with a 7.1 surround sound system that decodes DTS-HD master audio. I then spent the last few dollars i had left...and bought all 5 seasons of Lost on Blu-ray . \nIts hard to describe the difference in re-watching the series in this format. I already knew that Lost was one of the most well written shows I've ever seen, but the true cinematic beauty of the island and the masterful audio that accompanies it is truly breathtaking. The episodes directed by Jack Bender with Michael Bonvillain and John Bartley as the main cinematographers are true works of art. We may never see a \"network\" series that's filmed as a feature film at this high quality ever again. I highly recommended you re-watch this series in its entirety in HD audio and video on Blu-ray if you already haven't. I'm glad ill be able to watch S6 this way. ",
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"body": "You, sir (or ma'am), are an ambitious rewatcher.\n\nI've been taking my time through it. Just finished Season 4 last night. I might have this timed out perfectly where I can wrap up a final S5 rewatch just before 2/2. ",
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Nikola Tesla was way ahead of his time. In 1906, he was ready to build the "World System", something very similar to what we now call the Internet. | Here is an extract taken from a book called "Prodigal Genius", by John J. O'Neill. It is the content of a brochure describing the World System.
"The World System has resulted from a combination of several original discoveries made by the inventor in the course of long continued research and experimentation. It makes possible not only the instantaneous and precise wireless transmission of any kind of signals, messages or characters, to all parts of the world, but also the interconnection of the existing telegraph, telephone, and other signal stations without any change in their present equipment. By its means, for instance, a telephone subscriber here many call up any other subscriber on the Globe. An inexpensive receiver, not bigger than a watch, will enable him to listen anywhere, on land or sea, to a speech delivered, or music played in some other place, however distant. These examples are cited merely to give an idea of the possibilities of this great scientific advance, which annihilates distance and makes that perfect conductor, the Earth, available for all the innumerable purposes which human ingenuity has found for a line wire. One far reaching result of this is that any device capable of being operated through one or more wires (at a distance obviously restricted) can likewise be actuated, without artificial conductors and with the same facility and accuracy, at distances to which there are no limits other than those imposed by the physical dimensions of the Globe. Thus, not only will entirely new fields for commercial exploitation be opened up by this ideal method of transmission, but the old ones vastly extended.
The World System is based on the application of the following important inventions and discoveries:
1. The Tesla Transformer. This apparatus is, in the production of electrical vibrations, as revolutionary as gunpowder was in warfare. Currents many times stronger than any ever generated in the usual ways, and sparks over 100 feet long have been produced by the inventor with an instrument of this kind.
2. The Magnifying Transmitter. This is Tesla's best invention – a peculiar transformer specially adapted to excite the Earth, which is in the transmission of electrical energy what the telescope is in astronomical observation. By the use of this marvelous device he has already set up electrical movements of greater intensity than those of lightning and passed a current, sufficient to light more than 200 incandescent lamps, around the Globe.
3. The Tesla Wireless System. This system comprises a number of improvements and is the only means known for transmitting economically electrical energy to a distance without wires. Careful tests and measurements in connection with an experimental station of great activity, erected by the inventor in Colorado, have demonstrated that power in any desired amount can be conveyed clear across the Globe if necessary, with a loss not exceeding a few per cent.
4. The Art of Individualization. This invention of Tesla is to primitive tuning what refined language is to unarticulated expression. It makes possible the transmission of signals or messages absolutely secret and exclusive both in active and passive aspect, that is, non-interfering as well as non-interferable. Each signal is like an individual of unmistakable identity and there is virtually no limit to the number of stations or instruments that can be simultaneously operated without the slightest mutual disturbance.
5. The Terrestrial Stationary Waves. This wonderful discovery, popularly explained, means that the Earth is responsive to electrical vibrations of definite pitch just as a tuning fork to certain waves of sound. These particular electrical vibrations, capable of powerfully exciting the Globe, lend themselves to innumerable uses of great importance commercially and in many other respects.
The first World System power plant can be put in operation in nine months. With this power plant it will be practical to attain electrical activities up to ten million horsepower and it is designed to serve for as many technical achievements as are possible without undue expense. Among these the following may be mentioned:
1. Interconnection of the existing telegraph exchanges of offices all over the World;
2. Establishment of a secret and non-interferable government telegraph service;
3. Interconnection of all the present telephone exchanges or offices all over the Globe;
4. Universal distribution of general news, by telegraph or telephone, in connection with the Press;
5. Establishment of a World System of intelligence transmission for exclusive private use;
6. Interconnection and operation of all stock tickers of the world;
7. Establishment of a world system of musical distribution, etc.;
8. Universal registration of time by cheap clocks indicating the time with astronomical precision and requiring no attention whatever;
9. Facsimile transmission of typed or handwritten characters, letters, checks, etc.;
10. Establishment of a universal marine service enabling navigators of all ships to steer perfectly without compass, to determine the exact location, hour and speed, to prevent collisions and disasters, etc.;
11. Inauguration of a system of world printing on land and sea;
12. Reproduction anywhere in the world of photographic pictures and all kinds of drawings or records."
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"body": "not to mention the invention of the radio, the fluorescent lamp, the remote control (he controlled a small boat without wires), the AC motor/generator, the AC transmission lines, the hydroelectric, a blade less water pump and other 1,000 patented inventions. The guy was a creative machine and he had a so powerful mind that he can see the prototype of his inventions working in 3D as it was real, in miniature, on the top of his table. He said once that he was very disturbed by this because it was so real that he cannot distinguish from any other real object.",
"score": 41
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"body": "I know Reddit loves Tesla, but this comes off as pseudo-scientific nonsense.\n\nCan anyone provide a reference to a source which details the actual physics involved?",
"score": 20
},
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"body": "Tesla was the genius inventor that could. And he did it for all of us, not for profit nor recognition.",
"score": 10
},
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"body": "Is it any surprise that Tesla is coming back in? His inventions could have propelled humanity into a different and wonderful future, but people like JP Morgan (Morgan Chase), Alexander Graham Bell (Bell), and Thomas Edison (General Electric) would have none of his philanthropy. His ideas were stolen by those with money and those with power (Hoover gov't broke in while his dead body was still warm). \r\n\r\nHis ideas were studied and a timeline was created for introduction of his inventions. A timeline that would maximize profit for all concerned and keep the USA well ahead of the rest of the world technology wise.\r\n\r\nTesla is being remembered again because it is time for the re-introduction of some of the ideas only he came up with. We certainly won't be seeing all of them yet, though.",
"score": 9
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"body": "\"When wireless transmission is perfectly applied, the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it really is, as all things are being particles of a real and a dynamic whole. We shall be able to comunicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance . Not only this, but through television and telephone we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face.\" - Nikola Tesla, 1925",
"score": 7
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"body": "You can see an image from this brochure [here](http://books.google.ca/books?id=3W6_h6XG6VAC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99&dq=tesla+world+system+brochure&source=bl&ots=k5EzuJONVh&sig=C1GnS-Q1c4xc_IazPQH9_8BiDKs&hl=fr&ei=W_tPS_6GGsyRlAfVhLWwCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=tesla%20world%20system%20brochure&f=false).",
"score": 4
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"body": "It might have been really bad if the internet was invented way back then. There was a lot more emphasis on the ruling class and no qualms about doing morally questionable things for the \"greater good\" back then. Nowadays when a net neutrality bill gets put forth at least some people stand up for it. I have a feeling if that JP Morgan guy had his chance to get his grubby paws on the new world-wide internet things may be a little different. It would have been just a consolidation of power. ",
"score": 3
}
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Hey redditors! How many of you have your Google Maps Street View appearance bookmarked? | I happened to be working on a film shoot when the Google Car [drove through our set](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hog+eye+bait+shop+austin+78724&sll=30.276261,-97.601061&sspn=0.01614,0.033023&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=30.281596,-97.609168&panoid=sPZ91ej_qPm51I7-8e71Jw&cbp=12,84.87,,0,6.52&hq=hog+eye+bait+shop&hnear=Austin,+TX+78724&ll=30.281713,-97.60962&spn=0,359.944253&t=h&z=15). I also happened to be the still photographer for the production, so I got [pictures](http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrusk/3648514134/in/set-72157619955615225/). I'm the one on the left, in the gray shirt. And the camera. | 4 | [
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"body": "Nice one!\n\nI did not see the Google Car when it made its way around my city, however that was simply because *I didn't look up!*.\n\nI'm pretty sure it's me, but I could be wrong: http://imgur.com/T8WQw.jpg",
"score": 3
}
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Craig Ferguson issues a challenge to Rush Limbaugh: Donate a million dollars to the Red Cross, and we won't mention this again. | Please add vid from Craig Ferguson show when it's available. I was just watching and was floored by this. He completely bypassed the NBC Host snafu to make edgy jokes about Rush and to call him out. | 13 | [
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"body": "From Wikipedia:\n>According to a 2001 article in U.S. News & World Report, Limbaugh had an eight-year contract, at the rate of $31.25 million a year. In 2007, Limbaugh earned $33 million. On July 2, 2008, Matt Drudge reported that Limbaugh signed a contract extension through 2016 that is worth over **$400 million**, breaking records for any broadcast.\n\nHe certainly can afford it.\n\nPersonally, I'd like to see enough people file complaints with the FCC and have him thrown off the air.",
"score": 3
}
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I had CBS on and watched Craig Ferguson's intro. He is a true gentleman. | He brought up the fact that the stuff going on at NBC and the Tonight Show is irrelevant, and what people should really be talking about is the crisis in Haiti, his delivery was impeccable. He brilliantly suggested that if Rush Limbaugh wants to apologize properly for his asshole move earlier that he should donate $1,000,000 to the red cross, while defending his character. Truly a class act. | 14 | [
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"body": "To be fair, Conan said tonight that the whole Leno controversy did not matter compared to the Haiti situation. Then he told people to donate to Ben Stiller's charity that will help people in Haiti.",
"score": 9
}
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You best beer value pick? | I haven't tried a lot of beers. By a lot I mean compared to some of the people on this subreddit. I've probably tried 100 different beers. I'm unemployed, so on a budget. This got me thinking what people think is their favorite beer when price is a factor? Mine is Lagunitas Hop Stoopid ($3.99 @ my local Albertsons). I'm looking for suggestions. Apologies in advance if a similar question has been asked, since I have a couple of Hop Stoopids in me right now, I'm not going to try and check.
EDIT: Your best beer value pick. I told you I have two Hop Stoopids in me. | 14 | [
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"body": "I generally fall back to Sam Adams. It is usually only $1 or $2 more than Bud/Miller per 12 pack, but way better. Not the most awesome beer compared to \"real\" craft/micro-beer, but really good bang for the buck.",
"score": 10
},
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"body": "Not sure where you're located but [Leinenkugel's](http://www.leinie.com) if you're in the midwest or [Yuengling](http://www.yuengling.com/) on the east coast. Maybe not the cheapest possible, but good beer at good prices. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "Lion's Head. In college, I could get a case for $8.\n\nPlus, the puzzles under the cap provide a way to measure how drunk you are.\n\nIn Philly, beer from Yards or Philadelphia Brewing Co. is not too expensive for a case. The Yards brewery will sell you a case for $24.",
"score": 7
}
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