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Coffee addicts: Pet peeves when it comes to coffee preparation? | Mine include frothing chocolate powder with the milk (for mochas), and the propagation of automatic button pusher machines... | 10 | [
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"body": "Dont even get me started, but from a highly trained and quite successful barista (me) here is what to look out for, in order of preparation technique:\n\n* Dirty hopper on top of the grinder. It suggests that the grinder has not been cleaned for quite some time. That thin film you see on the grinder hopper is rancid coffee oil. It means it will contaminate the fresh beans when the hopper is refilled. That is an instant fail and a sure sign that the barista has not been cleaning the grinder\n* Full dosing chamber when business is slow. Ground coffee stales in minutes, fresh coffee is the only way to drink espresso based coffee \n* Not using a hand tamper and instead using the piss poor piece of plastic on the grinder. This means that the water will not contact the coffee correctly and therefore most of the good coffee oils will be left inside the group handle/porta filter\n* Incorrect tamping technique. The whole purpose of tamping is to create a condensed even puck of coffee so that the water connects with as much of the coffee as possible therefore maximising the flavour profile\n* Not rinsing group handles/portafilters before dosing with a fresh batch of ground coffee. This means that the stale remnants of the previous coffee will be what you receive in your fresh coffee.\n* Coffee being extracted too slowly or too quickly. This is a function of grind size which means that the barista has not set the grinder to the appropriate grind size which means a sub optimal extraction\n\nAny questions on coffee please feel free to ask.",
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"body": "I hate when a shop offers both a cappuccino and a latte on their menu and makes the same drink when you order either.\n\nI hate automated machines.\n\nI hate it when a barista doesn't fully dose out all of the coffee they've ground, leaving at least half a portafiler's worth left to go stale before dosing it into the next shot they pull.\n\nI hate it when baristas foam milk without giving it enough air, causing the most abrasive high pitched sound.\n\nI very rarely use the word 'hate'.",
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"body": "I'll second the automated machines. The other pet peeve is really bad foam – I hate having a sponge on top of my cappuccino or latte.",
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"body": "- Baristas reheating milk by steaming it a second / third time, or adding fresh milk to a small amount of already diluted/steamed milk\n\n- Dilute latte with no flavor whatsoever (here's looking at you, Starbucks) \n\n- Drink made poorly, I tell the barista \\*exactly\\* what's wrong with it, and they make another one \\*exactly\\* the same way as before.\n\n- Cup completely full with ice = 10 mL of actual beverage (Hello again Starbucks)\n\n- Dilute iced coffee / i.e. single-strength drip coffee haphazardly poured over ice \n\n- When they never refill the milk containers for the customers\n\n- When they are training a new barista and the drink he/she made sucks, it took forever to make, and I can't muster the patience to have him attempt to fix it.",
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"body": "I am a coffee addict and a barista. Ask me anything.\n\nI had an ex (EX EX EX) girlfriend run a second batch of drip through the same beans as earlier in the morning.",
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Is this true? (Science Question) | I just saw [this](http://imgur.com/LNmK2) on another reddit. Is this true? I've never heard this. Thanks.
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"body": "The Himalayas mountains were formed when when the Indian subcontinent collided with Asia. the sea floor that exists between these two bodies was compress and folded up, forming the major basis of the mountain range. Since the mountains were formed from the sea, it makes sense there are fossilized sea shells on top.\n\nThe presence of shells, does not prove a world wide floor occurred how ever. That portion of the statement has no scientific basis. \n\ncitation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas#Origins_and_growth",
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"body": "Anywhere one finds sedimentary rock, there is the possibility of finding fossils. Even in the sedimentary rock layers that got pushed up to form mountain ranges.\n\nHow one interprets the information, of course, depends on whether one believes in natural processes or decrepit mumbo-jumbo.",
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AskWATMM: I just started learning FL Studio, and making some video-game-esque songs. What's a good website to host 'em on? | Mainly, I'm just looking for a way to share my music without having to send mp3 files to everyone - but I may be interested in making money eventually.
Thanks in advance for your help!
*EDIT: Oh, WAMM is definitely more catchy than WATMM. It's probably obvious that I'm new here, haha!* | 4 | [
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"body": "Many people here use [Soundcloud](http://www.soundcloud.com) as it's dead easy and has an embeddable player. Think of it as the YouTube of music, with social networking built in.",
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DAE hate it when the barcode sticker on something you just bought doesn't peel off cleanly? | There's a moment of truth when I get home with a new purchase and attempt to peel off the barcode sticker. Despite a level of focus and precision typically reserved for defusing bombs or performing brain surgery, the sticker inevitably tears, leaving behind a mess of glue and paper.
If it weren't for [Goo Gone](http://www.magicamerican.com/googone/product/4c6f91c2-f920-446f-932e-821063ffa1a9.aspx), I probably would have lost my mind by now. I suppose soaking it in hot, soapy water is another option, but I'm usually not that patient. | 77 | [
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"body": "but then aren't you absolutely thrilled when the sticker peels off perfectly (like on a bic lighter) especially when its perfectly coiled/rolled up?",
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"body": "This is even better on plastic cookware. Goo Gone, alcohol, oil, nothing seems to remove some of these adhesives. It's almost as if they get some kind of sick pleasure out of torturing us.\r\n\r\nThis is more insidious than those aggravating sealed plastic clamshell cases that protect even cheap knicknacks like Fort Knox.",
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Introduce us to your captain. | What's behind his name and appearance? Do you have a backstory? Are you considering making changes for when the server wipe happens?
I'll post a pic of mine when I change his uniform. Apparently he looked like Wesley Crusher in it. | 5 | [
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"body": "Jonathan Gregory Willmore.\n\nHe was born on Earth in 1995. His father, who was a Eugenics War vet, didn't want his son growing up in climate of intolerance and hatred so he had his cryogenically frozen. BAM! Wakes up in the 24th Century and has to aclimate. After a few decades he's recieved a couple degrees and attended Starfleet Academy. \n\nI ain't afraid of no ghost.",
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"body": "Captain Megaptera Splashypants Novaeangliae, or 'Georgie' for short, of the U.S.S. Gracie. \n\nNamed his ship after his long lost wife. The only Humpback whale to ever captain a ship.",
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What books have influenced the way you see things the most? | For me, it's always been books about science.
I'd say the top most schema changing books I've read are [The Selfish Gene](http://www.amazon.com/Selfish-Gene-Anniversary-Introduction/dp/0199291152/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263534260&sr=8-1), [How the Mind Works](http://www.amazon.com/How-Mind-Works-Steven-Pinker/dp/0393334775/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263534321&sr=1-1), [Sperm Wars](http://www.amazon.com/Sperm-Wars-Infidelity-Conflict-Bedroom/dp/1560258489/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263534357&sr=1-1), and some intro to psychology text book I had when I was a freshman in college.
The Selfish Gene made me realize and appreciate the beauty of the natural world. It also gave me powerful insights about the rules on which animals operate and ties it back to the idea of selfish replicators. At one point halfway through, it clicked and I suddenly felt the depth and power of my world schema increase. I could feel it rushing through all my memories like a tremor, touching and modifying everything I knew. The Selfish Gene is a science book that validated my suspicions of how the world works with evidence. That gave me the confidence to continue building my schema on top.
How the Mind Works is a book that also validated my suspicions of how we think and perceive. I am somewhat of a hereditarian, meaning that I think we are our genes. Our bodies are very obviously products of genes--we can see that with identical twins. But this is also true of personality and cognitive characteristics to a shocking degree. This book really changed the way I think about people and relationships, because there's a physical organ that's three pounds that is creating all of the behavior. It made me a doubter of free will. I guess that's what materialism ultimately leads to.
Sperm Wars is mainly about sexual selection, with particular emphasis on humans. There's a lot to sex and a lot that goes on behind the scenes that many people don't know about that's just fascinating as hell. That was a terrible sentence. The idea is that being a good provider and caretaker isn't good enough. Your sex organs have to work very well and if someone else's work better, then you're SOL. So in promiscuous species where there is a lot of competition for mates animals develop sophisticated war tactics and sex gadgetry in order to ensure that they beat out their competitors. These adaptations range from large genitalia which are used to simply overwhelm the competition with enormous swarms of sperm (which identify and kill different sperm en route to the egg), to behaviors, where women who may be ordinarily prude tend to be slutty all at once (she promotes sperm warfare to make sure her egg gets good sperm). There's a lot of interesting stuff in that book that made me go "whoa," and "aha! so that's why..."
One thing I noticed about all these books is that all of the ideas mesh with each other very well. We are conscious machines that were built by unconscious replicators that simply do what they do, effortlessly and ruthlessly. The reason we are the way we are is because our replicators didn't stop existing where countless others did. That is why our replicators are ruthless as fuck, as well as why are many other things.
What books influenced the way you see things? It can be about science, politics, history, or whatever.
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I'm also interested in what ways these books changed the way you see things. It's not necessary, but I think it would make this thread more interesting. | 18 | [
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"body": "George Orwell - 1984\n\nIt was a book that had to be read in 12th grade.\n\nCan't stress enough how I super-impose nearly every aspect of this book to my environment.",
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"body": "*Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley. It more or less changed every sociopolitical view I held before reading it. Utilitarianism, Eugenics, authoritarianism- these things went from history book horror stories to absolutely beautiful philosophies by the end of the book. It was the first positive portrayal of a totalitarian society, and in every sense of the word that world was perfect. \n\nedit: And to a lesser degree, [The Last Question by Isaac Asimov](http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html) really got me interested in theology. Kind of an odd jump, but it definitely changed the way I viewed the universe.",
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"body": "**The Selfish Gene** is Dawkins' best work. Poses some really interesting questions about the nature of altruism. \n On top of that, **George Orwell** was a genius.....just unfathomably prophetic, incisive in his analysis and a decent story teller too ! \n **Bertrand Russell** had some fantastic ideas on what might constitute a meaningful life - outside of the wage slavery in which most of us exist. Try *In praise of Idleness* \n More recently, **Noam Chomsky & John Pilger** are pretty much essential to building an understanding of the modern world. Everyone should understand the simply shocking extents to which Governments will go to control 'the people' and protect and expand an empire.",
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Hi reddit. Lessons for your kids? | Hi reddit, guy who someday wants to have kids here. But I was raised in a pretty emotionally dysfunctional home, and part of me is terrified of the prospect of, like, doing a horrible job affecting a human being's life to that degree. This has probably been done before, but I missed it and reddit search is a little ridiculous, so if you could indulge me for a second,
future/present/past parents: what are some important lessons or values that you [will/are currently trying to/did] unfailing impress upon your kids?
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teenagers: what are some (legit) things that you wish your parents would know about raising you? | 12 | [
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"body": "TIME. Give them time, they want time with you not material goods. That includes making sure you take all of the paternity time you can. That gives you time with the child when they are young.\r\n\r\nAs a dad, make sure you have some time with the kids without you significant other. This is important in \"bonding\" with your kids\r\n\r\nAlso they dont beak that easily stop treating them like glass",
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"body": "Teach them to be patient. Too many people are constantly looking for short cuts and demanding instant gratification; they end up doing a half-assed job of pretty much everything that way.",
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"body": "Be strict... By that I don't mean \"don't let them do anything\", but when you say you are going to enforce a punishment for misbehaviour and then they misbehave, *enforce it*.\n\nI've noticed the difference between myself and my brothers. My parents were stricter on me (apparently they always are with the first born) than on my brothers and now I have to watch when my mum says they can't do something and they argue until they break her down, or just do it anyway. They maybe get grounded for a couple of days and then are let out again. I remember being grounded for a **lot** longer and it being **impossible** to break away from. I missed friend's birthday parties because I happened to be grounded at the time and missing something like that showed me that if you're grounded, you're grounded.\n\nMy mum is left wondering \"what am I doing wrong?\" when my brothers come home drunk or stoned or fall off the roof of the school they broke into and break their elbows or come home with a face covered in blood from fighting [all true stories].... what she's doing wrong is *letting this happen* . She just ran out of steam. They rebelled harder than I had and she didn't have the energy for the daily battles. Try not to let this happen to you.\n\n*Edit, I should say, my brothers are honestly both lovely guys, they are just in the teen rebellion stage and letting that go wild can open up a host of bigger issues when they get older.",
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Does anyone actually use 'coverflow' on an iPhone? | I consider that a massive design flaw, not a feature. Maybe on the iPods it would be OK, but with a phone you're constantly moving it around, so removing all the play controls every time it goes a certain direction is a huge flaw. Making it so that it cannot be turned off is a stunning error, IMHO. | 28 | [
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"body": "Honestly, sometimes I do use it when I can't think of what I want to listen to. For me, scrolling through a textual list doesn't make forgotten music stand out as well as seeing an album cover. ",
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"body": "I use it at least 50% of the time for browsing my albums, i only have full albums and no random single tracks. I've never had any problems with it and it never crashed my iphone, it's what makes the iphone stand out from other music players imo.",
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"body": "This is on my list of things that apple needs to fix--I think coverflow has real potential to be useful with a bit of work. But right now? Hells, no. Completely worthless (albeit pretty).",
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"body": "Tbh this feature made me want an iPhone..\n\nBut i barely use my iPod for music (mostly YouTube, Internet) so when I am listening to music, I'm In class or walking..\n\n-_- I was only 16-17.. Don't judge me for wanting a phone for such a cool useless feature...",
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"body": "i agree. i wish they spent less time implementing cover flow, and more time making it so that my audio books don't fucking start over every time i pause/start them.",
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"body": "I actually see it as a not-bad feature I never use.\n\nThen again, it's part of the gruop of *features* that forces me to toggle rotation off.",
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"body": "it would be better if you could lock your phone in an angle or it remembered where you were when you flip it, because when you are trying to pick a song and the phone switches over, you just get the album cover.",
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"body": "I never use the coverflow. I agree that the controls need an update. There is so much unused space and tiny little buttons to go back or view playlist. For a \"mobile\" device with huge buttons for app selection, why are all the other buttons in the interface tiny and shoved in the corners. The reason the keyboard works so well is that it simulates buttons (very well imo) and not flat floating shapes like the play button.",
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"body": "No, cover is useless to me. I love the SBSettings Rotation Inhibitor combo.\n\nWhat I really wish is for the iPod app to show me rating info, volume slider, and seek bar all in one screen, instead of switching between the two portrait views. Landscape mode shows me... none of this. Landscape mode fails.",
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Why don't we have two Politics subreddits? | I enjoy reading about politics but, as I'm not from America, I'm not always interested in American politics and sometimes don't even know the people they are talking about.
Why don't we have two subreddits, /r/USApolitics and /r/Worldpolitics, so people like me can quickly read up on world matters (if its a world wide issue and involves the USA it can go in both) and we don't have to filter through all the country specific things.
I'm sure some people from America don't want to see political stuff specific to Europe if it doesn't involve them. | 3 | [
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"body": "http://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/AmericanPolitics/\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/\n\nIf one of those doesn't cover your needs you can always make your own and announce it in /r/politics.",
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HAE screwed up their sleep schedule due to interminable internet browsing at night? | Around midnight, you keep justifying yourself that one more link won't matter and it all adds up until you're sleeping around 4-5am and don't wake up until 5pm (unless you have an obligation like work).
TL;DR: popurls, reddit, porn, facebook, youtube, imdb, porn, youtube, facebook, popurls... | 452 | [
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"body": "The iPhone is the worst thing to happen to my sleep. Sure, I goto bed, but the iPhone (and reddit app) let's me continue depriving myself of sleep well into the night and early morning. ",
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"body": "Due to ridiculous bandwidth caps where I live I find myself waking up at 04:00 every fucking day to get online! On 1 package I have ( for approx US$80) I get a 4mbps adsl line, 3 gigs per month - uploads and downloads combined - and a special 'night rider' add-on (it is really called that) which divides my bandwidth by 5 between 01:00 and 08:00 i.e. if I went online only between 01:00 and 08:00 my allowance would be 15 gigs.....PER MONTH! \n\nFor a further US$175 per month (from a different ISP) I get unlimited downloads etc. between 20:00 - 08:00 weekdays and all weekend long. I have had this package for 3 days now and have proudly sucked 27 gigs.\n\nFuck the Interweb monopoly in South Africa. They can all kiss my delicious ass. ",
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"body": "1. Open Notepad\n2. Type in: %windir%\\System32\\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState\n3. Save as sleep.bat\n4. Open the windows Taskscheduler\n5. Tell it to run sleep.bat every day at 02:00\n6. Now the Pc will go into sleep mode every day at 02:00.",
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"body": "I have become nocturnal due to a culmination of studying for finals and ultimately procrastinating on websites like Reddit and Facebook. ",
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"body": "I usually have to wait until 11pm to smoke up, and instead of putting me to sleep I end up having so much fun surfing the net, watching tv, etc. that I stay up to three in the morning. Weed may put some people to sleep but it's like red bull to me.",
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"body": "I'm typically up until 5 or 6 AM every night. 2 AM rolls around and I say, \"Tonight's gonna be that night.\" Well it never is. I never go to bed earlier and am a slave to the internet. I am a sad panda. 8 (",
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"body": "I know that once a sleep schedule is shifted, it's hard to recover. Does anyone have any suggestions how to reset sleep schedules provided that the nocturnal browsing habit is miraculously cured?",
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"body": "I have [Delayed sleep-phase syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome). I have an excuse for this behavior.",
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"body": "My interminable internet browsing at night is a direct result of, and now continually contributing to, my screwed up sleep schedule. Damn you, Reddit.",
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"body": "Happens a lot. I find I don't sleep whenever there is anything really exciting going on. The night before the first day of school, the night before an interview - I sleep but the only thing running through my mind is what's going to happen and I wake up every 30 minutes and do nothing but have dreams about the day all night. \n\nA distinct memory in college was the night before a linear algebra exam - linear algebra was relatively easy compared to the other classes I was doing so I didn't actually start studying for it until the night before the test and then I realized I didn't even have much of it down. I swear, I slept for a few hours but in that time my mind was in overdrive and I woke up understanding everything I needed for the test and got a perfect score. \n\nI just had a big interview two days ago all the way across the country and now I can't sleep because I keep wanting to know if I got the position, the more I think about it, the more I want it. I'm practically holding my breath, even though I won't know until mid-next week.\n\nBut I've never had good sleeping schedule. \n\nRelevant link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome",
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"body": ">>Sunshine's been keepin' me up for days\n\n>>There is no night-time, it's only a passing phase\n\n- Elliot Smith \n\n",
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"body": "still up. \n\ni like to look on the bright side though. had it not been for my terrible sleep habits, i wouldn't have accumulated as much knowledge or curiosity as i do now!",
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I know most of you are against movie dates... | But I am going to one with a girl I've hung out with twice. We didn't hook up those times but it was a flirty atmosphere. How can I seal the deal. | 5 | [
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"body": "Ensure that you have bonding time either prior or after the movie. You will gain no rapport if you don't seek those opportunities because you need that alone time to flirt, develop attraction, and escalate. The movie will not be opportune for such motives.",
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"body": "I am ideologically opposed to movie dates because I believe that doing something together is a better way to ensure that she'll be attracted to you. That said, I've had some amazingly successful dates that incorporated a movie--in particular, I had a first date where we went to a movie, then wandered around the city, discussing the movie, bar hopping, etc. The movie made it easier for us to have common ground during the \"real\" date. I'm not sure I'd have needed that crutch if I'd had more experience with dating, though.",
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"body": "movies are tough early on in any relationship because its several hours of silence, so then you have to be able to comfortably break it. on the plus side, you dont have to hear her talk for 2 hours.\n\npersonally i'd only recommend movie dates with established partners/hookups where you already have a sexual relationship. then only take her to a movie that you want to see because you want to see it, she's along for the ride and you can bring her home afterwards. there's still much cheaper ways of getting laid though.",
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Local GoneWild Meet-Ups? Worth a try? | I'm definitely enjoying the gonewild chatrooms, but am left wanting more. Would anyone be interested in having local gonewild meetups? Can be as tame, or as wild as wanted. Personally as a nudist, and a pretty easy-going guy I am definitely down to get nekkid, and whatever happens after that. Am I the only one thinking this? Has this already been posted and shot down, or posted and implemented? I know this happens on craigslist in theory, but i trust reddit more. | 20 | [
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"body": "I smell sausage-fest.\n\nEDIT: Also, why not plan going to an already established convention..SwingFest or FetishCon ? Could put together some reddit-related gettogethers at said bigger convention. In this case, it could give redditors a big reason to travel.",
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"body": "\"Meet-Ups\" is a really odd misspelling of \"Orgies.\"\r\n\r\nNYC here... I second the idea of a map of where people are. I'm curious.",
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"body": "Phoenix, Arizona\nAll the way to Tacoma\nPhiladelphia, Atlanta, L.A.\nNorthern California\nWhere the girls are warm..\n\nKeep on a rocking me, baby",
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"body": "I think the map would be a good idea. Post something with states, upvote your state and reply with nearest major city?",
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"body": "Lincoln\n\nHow many people go to Comic Con in San Diego? If quite a few gonewilders go to it like me, might make a convenient place to all get together.",
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Flat feet and barefoot running | So I've been hearing that barefoot running is the bee's knees these dees... i mean days. Has anyone converted to bare feet running as a flat footed individual? Pros? Cons? (I have no arch what-so-ever)
Edit: Thanks for the feedback! I'll probably end up trying out the Vibrams and see how they feel (my only concern would be a cramping pain in the flattened part of my feet which I have encountered with poor arch-supporting soccer cleats). I will also try the socks on treadmill thing. | 20 | [
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"body": "I started running barefoot last summer. I have a very shallow arch, but the biggest problem I've had is toughening my feet up to the point were I can run a proper distance without being stopped by blisters. I started out on a treadmill wearing socks. After about three months the socks had worn through and my feet were callused enough to run comfortably outside.\n\nWhen you run barefoot you tend to land on the ball of the foot rather than the heel, so even if your feet are flat, your knees aren't getting as much shock as they would when wearing shoes (and landing on your heel). I guess building up the muscles in your feet could take time, but I play a lot of DDR so my calves and insteps were fairly well built before I started running.\n\n*Edit: Formatting*",
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"body": "Have you heard of Vibram's Five Fingers 'shoes'? Never used them myself but they might fit your needs.\r\nhttp://www.vibramfivefingers.com",
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"body": "I used to run around a great deal as a kid without shoes. Didn't bother me one bit. I did that a couple times as I was running outside onces until I took a shard of glass (wasn't noticeable while running) in my foot and since then I've gone back to wearing shoes.",
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"body": "I've had incredibly flat feet throughout my life (it's genetic, I think, because my dad also has complete Flintstone feet) \r\n\r\nI go barefoot for 98% of my daily life. I run in Nike Frees (which are supposed to mimic the barefoot experience) I've never had any sort of foot pain or arch pain, or any sort of issues due to my flat feet.\r\n\r\nMy theory is that arch support is a total made-up issue. For eons, our ancestors got around just fine without arch support.",
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Frustration! Xbox Radial disk Scratch, I refuse to give in. Reddit! | Xbox fell over with a game in it, and I have a light Radial scratch. I've read all the advice from using toothpaste to peanut butter. Reddit what has worked for you in the past when you also refused to give up. | 3 | [
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"body": "Go to Blockbuster (or any other major chain) and rent said game. Go home switch it out with the scratched one and return the scratched game saying it wont play. They will give you credit, a new game, or that same game if they have it in stock. ",
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"body": "Don't keep your xbox 360 vertical. Despite Microshaft advertising it vertical in all their ads it is the easiest way to damage games. Mine ate a few of my Halo discs and Fallout 3.\n\nEver since going horizontal I haven't had a disc chewed up in over 4 months.",
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"body": "Use a bench grinder (pick it up from a local hardware store) with a buffing wheel (the really soft cotton one). Get the plastic rubbing compound they use to fix scratched discs (find this at best buy or somesuch place). Use the compound on the disc and very gently and very lightly use the cotton buffer on the disc, in a small straight line extending from the center of the disc out to its edge. Then rotate the disc slightly and do it again. Only do this for a few seconds or you're liable to remove all the undercoating - you're trying to get rid of the scratch but nothing else, remember. When you're done you can use a disc polishing liquid to clean it, if you care. Your disc should be good as new. Don't try Brasso, or toothpaste, or any of those other suggestions - they might work for scratches, but this radial thing is different, and it won't work for this, I should know, I've tried. The only thing that worked for me is the process I'm describing to you right now.\n\nAmusingly enough, a friend of mine had rented the same game, and about 2 weeks after going through all this trouble I just described I ended up swapping it out with his rental anyhow. So bench grinder with cotton buffing wheel or blockbuster trade. Your call.\n\nEDIT: To the idiot who downvoted me - *this really is the only method that works for a radial scratch*",
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"body": "most video stores will have a disc resurfacer and will do it for you for a few dollars. Even if they have one and dont fix customers discs, I always have had good results just offering the cashier $5 to do it for me. Don't do the thing where you swap discs, the video store I used to work had a pretty good way to identify our discs that was very well done to prevent this, as this is not a new scam. If you do this there is a very good chance the cops could end up at your door shortly. We caught a number of potential scammers with this and i've noticed other chains have started doing it as well.",
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I 'm going to Peru in May to work with a charity helping disabled people and victims of abuse in Monterro and surrounding villages. English is non-existent. I need to learn Spanish! Any resources, online or otherwise that you could recommend? | Spanish grammar books that you've had experience with and that helped you learn? Online courses, payed or otherwise?
I can pick languages up quite well and fairly quickly.
Also, would you recommend learning it structurally I.e. with a class or are books enough?
Any help greatly appreciated! | 6 | [
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"body": "If you have a basic understanding of Spanish you should download Rosetta Stone. If not I'd seek out lessons in person.",
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DAE think bad words aren't really "bad", but just manmade words? | The 4-letter-words (including a-word, n-word a-hole, and variations, etc.) are not BAD in any way. They're just words. Some people act like they'll die if they ever say the word. They're manmade, words cannot hurt. | 9 | [
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"body": "The only word I don't really like is cunt, but that's really out of personal preference. I agree there isn't anything really bad about any word. \n\nI'll stop calling black people nigger when they stop calling me ginger. ",
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If you were to pick ONE tidbit of advice to share with the rest of the world... | Please make yourself heard.
I was thinking hard about something really accurate one of my professors had told me. Then I realized if everyone in the world was to share one piece of their knowledge, we'd end up with a pretty enthralling compendium. Here's what he told me
"Society, the workplace especially, judges you not by your booksmarts but the quality of work you can create with the smarts you have."
Never quite looked at education the same. | 5 | [
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"body": "everybody who agrees with you isn't your friend.\n\nyou won't make friends by agreeing with people.\n\n\"reddit\" is not a community, and individually they don't give a fuck about you. this can be proven, beyond the shadow of a doubt.",
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I know it's me with a problem here. Don't want to lose him. | So obviously, I'm with this guy. We have a great connection. Absolutely fantastic, I date around but I have never felt like this before. I'm about 99% sure he feels the same way, or he's a really good liar. His most recent ex broke up with him a little less than a month before he and I started dating. She still talks to him all the time, sees him every day, tells him everything, he even talks to her about me. I am insanely jealous, it's starting to be a problem, but he doesn't think there's anything wrong with them being best friends. I don't want to be controlling, but this is really starting to emotionally hurt me. Do I have a right to be jealous or should I let it go? Is there something more than friendship there?
EDIT: I'm going to talk to him about this. Here's a little more info. I have talked to him about this a couple times, which is why I'm reluctant to bring it up again. He always insists that there's nothing going on between them. I know while I must accept that as a possibility, the evidence all points to the contrary. I have been in an emotionally abusive relationship before and I needed to get out long before I did. This doesn't feel like that, like he's doing it on purpose or to somehow gain control, etcetc. I need a way to tell him that I feel shut out without making it seem like uncontrollable jealousy. I just don't know how to do that. I have been in terrible, terrible relationships and this is the first time in a long time that I have been happy with someone. I am unwilling to let that go without a fight. He and I have been dating for about 3x as long as they dated. What do you think R_A, worth fighting for?
EDIT: He broke up with me yesterday. She has told him that they can't be friends because now that he's single, she would cheat on her current boyfriend with him. Fun times. | 13 | [
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"body": "I'd be jealous in that situation, too. It'd be another thing if they were broken up for 5 years and had become best friends after realizing they weren't right for one another romantically. But a month? Nah. They're still depending on each other for a lot of emotional support. It's good to have friends when you're in a relationship, but maintaining emotional dependency on an ex isn't so good. \r\n\r\nIf this guy really is as fantastic as you say, just take things slowly. You say you \"date around,\" so don't turn this into an exclusive relationship before you're sure he's capable of emotional and physical fidelity. He sounds like he's still transitioning out of his last relationship. The ex may become less important to him over time, but if she doesn't you'll have to decide whether or not you want to be the third wheel with two people who have a head start on getting to know each other very well.",
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"body": "Yeah if they were screwing before, there is \"something more than friendship\" there. Whether it's dead ashes or giving off smoke still is the question.\n\nIt's not really fair to make your new partner have to deal with your seeing your ex every day and reporting on your private actions as a couple.\n\nHe may be dumb enough to miss that point but for sure the ex- isn't, as a woman.\n\nBring it up with him and as how he would feel if you were discussing the size of his unit with your ex- every day.",
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"body": "He's still enmeshed with her even if they're not \"in a relationship\". If he doesn't see a problem with this, then you have a problem. How are you supposed to build something with someone who hasn't moved on from his last gig?\r\n\r\nI spent six years with someone whose ex was her \"best friend\", and I always felt like second hand goods. \r\n\r\nIf you're hurting, then this is not the time to be with him. The first few months are supposed to be the best ones, not fraught with pain and jealousy.",
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"body": "I would say that it is your issue that you have to deal with.. that is *unless* he is doing things with her that he *isn't* with you. I don't mean sexual things (obviously that would be cheating and he'd deserve to be dumped), I mean if he is confiding things in her but not in you, talking about problems etc with her but not with you. Then I think you would have a very legitimate concern.\n\nWould you do the same for him? Are you good friends with any of your exs? I won't lie, if my boyfriend was superbestfriends with one of his ex gfs I would probably feel similarly to you, but I also know that I am very close with some of my exs and wouldn't be willing to give them up for my bf purely if he was jealous of them. They are nice guys, there are no risidual feelings and my bf knows that I love him.... so even if I *did* feel that way I would realise it was my issue and there is no way I'd ask my bf to give them up unless I thought that they were trying to move back in on him or were acting inappropriately or freezing me out or something like that.",
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"body": "Would you dump your best friend, if he were jealous of them? While I think you should tell him how you feel, I don't think you should indicate to him, in any way, that he should end the friendship. Do you trust him? If he's not hiding anything from either of you (the friendship from you, and the relationship from her), then is there anything specifically that's raising your suspicion? ",
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Reddit, I have never seen snow in my entire life. And now, I am here in Norway. One word: COLD | Also, I come from a crowed city in the Philippines. I can't believe that there are so few people here.
EDIT:
How the hell do I prevent nosebleeds? | 40 | [
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"body": "The key to braving the cold is all in your head: tell yourself that it's not \"freezing\", it's \"refreshing\". Man, am I glad to get out of that stifling building!\n\nThat and get a nice warm jacket.",
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"body": "Layer up. Have at least three layers of cloths, recommended four. Start with your favorite shirt, something that is relatively close to your skin. Now get a nice warm sweater. Now put a heavy winter coat over all of that. As far as your legs go, wear long underwear, heavy duty jeans, and some wind-resistant winter pants. Tuck your shirt and sweater (but not the coat) under the winter pants (but not your jeans). Now get yourself nice long, warm, wool socks and long winter boots. Stuff the winter pants under the top of the boots. Wear gloves (I prefer the ones with the separated fingers, but that is just a personal choice), and bring the sleeve of the winter coat over the gloves. Now wear a ski mask on your face and bring the hood on the winter coat up.",
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Reddit Men: Is Marriage Really Worth It? HONESTLY | I'm confused. I hear all the time how unhappy men are in their marriages. And it only gets worse as they get older. I'm sure it's not how they expected it to be when they first got married. What exactly happens over the course of a marriage to where it gets to the point that men are just not into it anymore? Does the novelty of marriage/love wear off? And if you could, would you do it over differently? HONESTLY | 7 | [
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"body": "It all depends on who you marry and what your expectations of marriage are. I have been married for 13 years and here is what has made it outrageously successful and in my view infinitely superior (for me) to any other form of relationship, let me stress this is my experience only.\n\n* For me marriage is a team sport where 2 people work together to get further down the path, socially, intellectually, physically, spiritually and financially than you could ever on your own. It means your relationship is multi-dimensional and therefore always stimulating.\n\n* Marriages that fail are usually because there are no common interests or goals. Having said that the level of expectation on your partner should give them room to breathe and grow. \n\n* I married a hot, fit, smart, successful, compassionate and driven woman who has a live and let live attitude. I tell people I won wife lotto, but I know many have not been as lucky.\n\nTL:DR \nFind someone with whom you can share common interests, work together to propel you both forward and don't place ego driven expectations on your partner. ",
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"body": "Only marry the girl you could spend the rest of your life with without worrying a single day about marriage.",
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"body": "I've been married for seven years now and I'd say it's definitely worth it. Having someone who understands you can trust and rely on completely is a wonderful thing. ",
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"body": "I will never get married. Doesnt seem logical to me that you need a piece of paper to make a life long commitment to another person you love. If anything its religiously motivated as far as an obligation. With the divorce rate at over 60% now (and growing), its obvious that the system isnt working. Looks like even Jesus cant fix this mess.",
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"body": "I'm too lazy to find the link, but I recently heard an interview with a psychologist who studies happiness. His basic findings about marriage were that people tend to be at their very happiest the day they get married. They continue to be quite happy until they have children. At that point, even if parenthood is \"satisfying\" their happiness decreases. With children, they are simply unable to do the things that they used to do to keep them happy and forced to do things that bring no happiness but are necessary for raising kids. Easy enough to predict. I never really thought about it before, but apparently happiness levels tend to return to close to their original state once the kids are moved out.\n\nOf course, it's love so at some point you just have to choose to go with it or not. I'm not a man, but my views on marriage have always been \"Um, what the fuck why would I want to do that\" until I met someone who was into marriage and who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. Apart from the panicky discussions about what I do or don't have to do as far as the weddings is concerned, I'm very much looking forward to it, because I know the ups and downs of the institution will be worth having him.",
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"body": "you hear \"all the time\": Those who complain are those who are unhappy, those who are happy do not complain. The problem here is the \"loudest customer is the unhappy customer\", while you may hear praise from the happy couple. Marriage is worth it, just like having a girlfriend is worth it. Both are severable, both are pretty much the same thing, one has state backing. If its something you think you'd like, the commitment, then it is going to be worth it. If the commitment is what gives you the stop-short questions you have here, then it isn't for you. \n\nMarriage is not necessary to be happy.",
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Update: progress and panic attacks. | Here's an update to my previous thread (and some all new problems! Heh.)
Previous thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/all95/no_one_to_talk_to_and_nowhere_to_go/
I started therapy today. It felt weird, but overall I thought it was good. My therapist told me I was "terrific" and I nearly broke down crying. I really haven't had anybody think of me in positive terms in a while now. It felt good to have somebody listen to my problems and not get angry at me, and to have somebody who wants to listen (even if I do pay her... heh).
My family did ask me how it went, but when I only said we talked about background stuff they seemed to just think it was a waste of time (might've just been my perception, though). I guess they expected her to magically cure me in one session and I'd be normal again. It seems as though they're now intent on throwing me out in two weeks. Or maybe not. I can never tell with them.
They do seem to gang up on me a lot lately. They tell me that it's too late for me to feel the way I do (i.e. I should be out of here by now and the time for me having anxiety attacks and feeling suicidal is now gone), and although I need to make a decision and either go to school right now (complete with full student loans and an apartment... classes start in under a week) or find a high paying job that will help me move out. Both seem so impossible.
Then tell me in so many words that I am to do it in two weeks, or... actually I'm not sure what, but whatever it is I'm sure I'm the cause of most of the pain in the family. Everybody seems so stressed out, and I'm sure it's mostly my fault. My mom is constantly tired and my sister (who has basically taken the roll of angry parent in this case) is constantly angry at me.
It might be trying to be harsh because they think it'll help me get going. When really, it's doing the opposite. I'm feeling more and more down every time they do it, and more and more like I can't do ANYTHING much less get my life in order.
Every time I try to explain to them how I feel and how overwhelming it all is, they just ignore me and yell at me more. It feels like I can't ever win. I'm not lazy, I'm just overwhelmed. This anxiety and depression just drive my energy into the ground. I don't want to kill myself, but I don't want tomorrow to come. I'm afraid that I have no way out. It feels like it's either get better and make everybody else worse or put off getting better and focus my energy on job stuff or school and potentially risk... well, I don't react well to the stress I have NOW, much less added stress.
I guess what I'm asking is, what do I do? Are there any coping tips for this anxiety I feel? Or even if I pile on any more? Is there *any* hope at all? Or, I guess, feel free to throw the doors open and offer any advice at all. I probably need it at this point.
Thanks in advance. I'm going to try getting some sleep and hopefully things will be better tomorrow. It probably won't happen, but I guess fake hope is better than no hope. | 11 | [
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"body": "I'm glad you found the therapy to be positive. How often will you be going? Can the therapist help explain things to your family? ",
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New Civ4 player here, I have a couple of questions | First off, if I build a farm, I get +1 food from that tile, right? (Do I get it only if the tile is being worked?) If the farm is in between two cities, how is determined which one gets the food? Also, what do you usually do if a city is stagnating? I tried building a plantation for example but it didn't help. I was expecting the city to get +3 food.
I will post more questions as they pop into my mind ;-)
Thanks in advance for your answers! :-) | 25 | [
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"body": "You only get food from a tile if it's being worked. If the farm is between two cities, you can choose which city works it by clicking on the farm tile in the city display window. If a city is stagnating, you need to increase food production on a workable square, or chose to work a tile that gives only food and not shield production. Also, if a city is stagnating and it's on the coast, build a lighthouse for increased food production from ocean squares.",
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"body": "I've been a marginally good Civ4 player for several years. I can regularly trounce the game AI on all but the highest two difficulties pretty much all the time.\n\nNewbie advice: General Tips\n\n- Early progress = victory. First blood is not good diplomacy, but it is great Civ4. Learn it. Progress made early in the game against the AI translates into wins.\n\n- Workers are your friends. Built more than you think you need as a new player. My general rule is 2 per city for my first 5 cities.\n\nNewbie advice: First steps\n\n- Do not micromanage resources yet. Let the AI do it for you. It will do a better job and you will not get caught up in minutia.\n\n- Use the overview screens to your advantage.\n\n- Early on, build a city with a good \"unit unlocking\" resource like copper. Start cranking out Axemen in that city like there's no tomorrow. Use them to thump your weakest neighbor. Do this immediately. Thump him dead. Not wounded. Dead.\n\n- Get comfortable with a couple early tech progressions. As a beginner, rush tech that gives you better units. The obvious one is bronze working - reveals copper, gives you Axemen. Use them to smite your enemies. Your enemies are everyone around you.\n\n- Do not try to do the science based wins early on, it'll just be frustrating because your neighbors will be busy skewering you with dozens of archers.\n\nLater on:\n\n- Get really good at [Cottage Economy](http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=270338).\n\n- Experiment with different custom game settings. Particularly map types. Find a few you like and get good at exploiting them. For example, most of the archipelago style maps are good if you tech rush sailing and send out archers all over the place. You can do this VERY early on.\n\n- Ignore rulers for now. Save for the ones that give you direct military advantages, all the other stuff is probably going to be more distracting than helpful. Cesar is a good one for a new player who has the basics down. So is ... um ... the Spanish woman. Sorry, in a hurry at work and trying to get this all down.\n\n- Oh yeah, did I mention? - Get REALLY good at [Cottage Economy](http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=270338).\n\nMore advanced:\n\n- Start microing the production of your main cities to do specific things (production, science, income, etc).\n\n- Learn a few different economies. The two main ones are the cottage economy and the specialist economies. These are very different and have their own strengths and weaknesses. Play with them.\n\n- Experiment with the different leaders. Different leader traits make a HUGE difference on some map types. For example, one of the leader traits gives you +1 trade on all ocean squares. If you run this leader on a coastal map and get busy building lighthouses you can have a HUGE economic advantage over everyone.\n\nHave fun!",
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"body": "Pro-tip. \r\n\r\nIf you go to war, go to war against your enemies \"resources\" first, not their cities. If you're bashing your way through hordes of knights, use a small elite group of units, and fortify on top of their supplies of Iron and Horses, and suddenly they'll be pumping out alot more archers instead. If they are early gunpowder units, get the saltpeter, If it's a modern naval fight, get their oil. and so on",
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"body": "first of all, go nuts on this site: [http://www.civfanatics.com/](http://www.civfanatics.com/) \n\nfood is rarely the dominate reason your city is stagnating. its usually either unhappiness or sickness. if you open your city view you'll see what is causing your city growth to slow, then lookup buildings you can build that will counteract whatever your problem is. forests and rivers next to the city help it stay healthy. some buildings give you more healthy citizens, while others give you more happy citizens. occasionally food is the problem, but unless you are building a city in the tundra or surrounded by mountains the other factors will be your primary problems.",
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"body": "What improvements do is improve the tile they're built upon, not directly give the city more food.\n\nCivilians can work on any tile and depending on the tile (forest, plain, hill, etc.) and improvements they'll bring in a certain number of food/hammers/coins.\n\nIn your case the plantation probably wasn't being worked, try checking your city.\n\nhttp://www.civfanatics.com/ is a great site to learn the game, if you have hours and hours of time to spend.",
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"body": "I haven't played Civ since version 3. I've lost many hours to this series of games, but oddly am drawn by your conversation to download 4. \n\nMUST RESIST>!!",
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I just watched Run Ronnie Run.. | and it was terrible. Although I am very stoned and happened to notice that Inigo Montoya sang, possibly, the most beautiful song I've ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA3JUpQzOek
Being this stoned never sounded so good. | 3 | [
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"body": "I live in Georgia and this movie is fucking hilarious. It might not be your bag but it's a great movie whether you like it or not. ",
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I'm not sexist, but The Time Traveler's Wife sounds like a terrible story. | Who really wants to hear a story about a time traveler's wife when there a guy that is traveling through *time*. | 21 | [
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"body": "Despite it's name, the book focuses mainly on the time traveller and actually had quite an interesting take on time travel. I heard that the movie was terrible but I thought that the book was well written.",
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"body": "Chick flicks in general portray a world where it's not only normal but expected for all women to act as though they are mentally ill. ",
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"body": "Whenever someone says \"I'm not _______ but\", I always add \"I hope\" to the beginning of the sentence to make it read better.",
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"body": "I was asked to read this by my girlfriend, who loved it and said that it was a great piece of fiction (not great work, just a good book). I am not kidding when I say to you that it made me consider breaking up with her. \n\n\nIt is a piece of 3rd rate drivel. This is simply trashy schoolgirl fantasy . that at the end of the day is just an uttery boring read. The timetravelling is just a plot device to create a set of emotional problems for the female main character. The timetraveller doesnt learn anything about the human race, doesnt impart anything upon the world or the reader He just 'loves' her in the most banal, white, middle class, way possible.\n\n\nAbsolute drivel. AVOID. ",
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"body": "I thought the prose to Audrey Niffenegger's *Time-Traveler's Wife* was extremely well-written. Brilliant, in fact. But the plot kind of petered out by page 175 for me. The novel struggled after that, got boring. Time-traveling ceases to be fun or interesting if it's used to go bowling, or shopping in a supermarket. \"Wait! Wait! No! Don't put the book down. He's time-traveling! But get this: This time he's time-traveling to a Lowe's in 2002 to buy some light-bulbs. Hey, wait! Where are you going???\" Her overall plot couldn't sustain itself, even with the high-concept aid of time-travel. (It should have been edited down to 200 pages, instead of its lumbering, unsustainable 540.)",
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"body": "Sounds about as appealing as :\r\n\r\n**Star Wars**\r\nThe Trooper's families\r\n\r\n**Transformers**\r\nDays in the lives of the puny humans\r\n\r\n**CSI Utopia**\r\nNo crime in the perfect city",
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"body": "**Spoiler alert, pertinent plot details below.**\n\nMy wife adored the book so I listened to it in audiobook format on my daily commute. I can see why women like it, the guy talks about the woman in the most flowery and over the top terms right from the start that you an see it's an \"I want to be her\" type novel. It ticks all sorts of buttons for women. The unobtainable, troubled, edgy guy that she turns to good by just being so damn pretty that he can't help himself and her best friends boyfriend secretly loves her for the same reason (seriously she has no other defining characteristic worth mentioning!) and the purely female (in my experience) obsessive desperation to have a baby despite nature telling you that it's a stupid fucking idea (many miscarriages). \n\nAs a dad of two young daughters the ability to be able to be in your daughters life even after you die is, like the over the top wish fulfillment parts of the main female characters life, a great fantasy to push the right emotional buttons. ",
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"body": "Hardcore Science Fiction nut here. Don't burn a bridge to an opportunity to take your date out to something remotely interesting. I rate the Time Traveler's Wife an 8 out of 10 and will eventually pay good money to have it added to my collection. I took my wife to see it in the theater, knowing time-traveling-romance-novels are her favorite genre to read. \r\n\r\nRemember Splash? Daryl Hannah was a hottie then. Stupid story, but her looks alone brought me back for a 2nd showing. Same kind of intense attraction between the Time Traveler and his future Wife.\r\n\r\nRemember Somewhere in Time? If you hate time traveling stories, stay home. All three of these movies have romance at their core. Be you a girl or a guy, but heterosexual oriented, you should have some time to pay these movies some attention with your significant other. Time is short is the moral of these stories, so make the best of it. ",
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"body": "The Time Traveler's Wife is a film they show on intercontinental flights. This means that it is terrible.",
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[7] I am so smart. | I am so smart. S-M-R-T... D'oh!
So I had a great idea. I had a cube of hash that was hard to break pieces off...of. I needed to put it somewhere to get warm and get flat between something heavy.
So I put it under the battery of my Macbook. Went outside to smoke a bowl, and by the time I got back it was already flattened a bit, and warm. I pinched it a little flatter and put it back under the computer for good measure. Now a day later, it is a perfect disk of delicious hash, which I will be enjoying shortly.
Update: Indeed, it was delicious.
Bonus question for an extra point: What is the best way to smoke hash in a bowl. Do you layer it within the weed or just put it on top? Do you crumble it or leave it in bigger chunks? | 3 | [
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"body": "I go weed on bottom, then kief, then hash, then a sprinkling of kief again on top. Burns ever-so perfectly and evenly (and slow!) =D",
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What is your favorite voice? | For me its [Robert Stack.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcqWfGjGVZ0) Such a cool voice. Whats you favorite? | 3 | [
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"body": "Maybe Emma Clarke?\nVoice of the London Underground. \n\nhttp://www.emmaclarke.com/fun/mind-the-gap/spoof-london-underground-announcements\n",
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English Bull Terrier - constantly tracking/hunting evn indoors... suggestions? | We have moved house and now live around far more nature. Whereas before we were surrounded by urban noises we now have birds calling; leaves blowing; insects shuffling etc.
It has been great for the humans but our canine family member is a little on edge.
Any sound sends him patrolling around the house, often at night which keeps me up constantly calling him to come lie down.
Incidentally: this is not always unnecessary - he was up hunting all night a little while ago. Constantly sniffing and pushing at our bed, eventually both my wife and I lost it with him and scolded him out of the room (we wont return until we soften up again) so we caould get some rest.
Next day we're making breakfast and he suddenly pounces clear across the room, I got quite a fright so I run around the island and he is standing there with a HUGE rat in his mouth!
Thing is that his hyper vigilance is now on overdrive, any thoughts on how to help him settle down? | 7 | [
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"body": "He's excited because you have rats in your house and he can hear and smell them. That's hard to ignore if you are a dog. You can try reading *Control Unleashed* by Leslie McDevitt. She is an agility trainer and she intended that book to help people train their dogs to be calm, focused and confident enough for agility - but I think it's the most useful book out there to teach calm behavior in all situations. She does the best job of teaching dogs to ignore distractions that I have seen.\n\nFor now you can start teaching \"go home!\" Get a mat and when you are standing in front of the mat that \"go home\" = \"down on the mat\". You can do this by saying \"go home, down\" and then once he gets it just say \"go home\". Then take a small step away and tell him \"go home\" reward him only if he lies down on the mat. If he gets frustrated you can throw a treat on the mat, but letting him get frustrated and try new things can be part of his learning process. Once you have \"go home\" down start rewarding him for relaxing on the mat. Frequently at first, but then at longer intervals. You can look into a manners minder - it's a machine that lets you reward your dog by remote control - or automatically. \n\nHopefully once your dog practices relaxing around distractions enough he'll learn to ignore the distractions. If there are rats in the house, he may never be able to ignore them *all* the time, night should get better though. For now, avoid yelling at him, but feel free to lock him out of your room. ",
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Joe Rogan schools some "archeologist" that claims he found Noah's Ark | This starts out with some of his standup about explaining the story of noah's ark to an 8 year old mentally handicapped kid, which is somewhat funny but pretty mediocre. The good part is when this dude comes backstage and tries to tell Joe that he's working on an archeological site where they believe they may have found Noah's Ark, and Rogan goes on a great rant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF9Xn5m2OGg | 49 | [
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"body": "You should hear Rogan go on about his Jungian experiences and about how he doesn't believe the moon landings happened.",
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"body": "When Joe brought up Gilgamesh, the other guy was thinking like \"WTF did I get myself into here\". He looked like he wanted to climb back under the rock that he came from under.",
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"body": "Isn't it a yearly occurrence that a few groups of douchenozzles heads up Ararat looking? Some go inadequately prepared and have to cut it short, *leaving their firewood*. Then the next group of idiots comes along and finds that wood and declares they found the fucking Ark.",
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3 Weeks since I've begun playing. I find my skill level often swinging wildly from 'incompetent', to 'almost useful in a team setting' what is going on? | Hey everyone.
First I just wanted to formally introduce myself. I play as Doctor Danger on the reddit servers and a Lotus Clan server who's Regular Red Team Members company I've come to enjoy.
So I've played a more then a few rounds on the reddit servers, and I can't help but notice how varied my skill level seems to be from day to day. Like I said it seems to swing wildly out of control. I'm not refering to last night, as I was working on my aim as a spy, as in another thread I read that the spy class is fantastic to develop your gun slinging skills with.
What I want to know is if this a shared experience that some of you had when you first started out? What do you, as reddit players expect from me as a team member, and how can I do those things more effectively. I'm absolutely in love with this game. I have all the respect in the world for the reddit regular players, and I can foresee TF2 becoming a rather positive social engagement for me if I play my cards right.
What I think it comes down to, is that in various situations, I have no idea what to do. For example, at the beginning of a Payload Map, I get a huge mental block as the 'setup' counter reaches 0. I know their going to Uber out a heavy, demo, pyro, or soldier. But, rarely is there a position I could use a pyro air blast to separate the medic from his uber target. Even still, if I tried, I'm going to be sploaded by sticky bombs 99.9% of the time.
On a side note I've not really gotten emotionally upset as a result of a frustrating round of TF2. If you've seen me leave after you've killed me, most of the time I'm having a ping issue that I'm planning on resolving, right after I get a little further ahead with work.
I think the maddest I've gotten was on some xclan server that had some 14 year old calling the rest of the team incompetent because 2 out of 8 members were capping. The issue was he wasn't exactly 'leading' or offering any sound strategy for anyone to follow.
That's just one example, but I'd love to have a rather fleshed out conversation about all this here if anyone's willing to kinda 'mentor' me or something, if that doesn't sound too ridiculous. | 22 | [
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"body": "To be honest, this sounds fairly normal. Everyone has good days and bad days and it also depends on your entire team how well you do. If they're not holding back the enemy team then the enemy team are going to come to you, for example.\r\n\r\n\r\nOne thing may be that you're playing on the Reddit servers. As a general rule they have a higher standard of play than most pubs, which can be really daunting for a new player. I advise randomly joining low player count pub servers until you're used to the maps and what you should do at the start of each round.\r\n\r\nThat's not to say you shouldn't play on the reddit servers, I've found they're brilliant and accommodating overall, but if you're not getting a chance to truly practice because the overll skill level is so far above your own(that sounds really condescending, sorry!) then pubbing away on servers with six other people at a lower standard may be a better place to start.",
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"body": "Your experience mirrors mine very closely. I've been playing for about 8 months and it has happened several times where I play a reddit-server game and finish near the top of the scores and I think to myself, 'wow, I'm really getting good at this,' and then the next map comes, our team gets rolled, and my aim seems to have disappeared.\r\n\r\nPart of it has to do with the team you're on. Every player has a different style, and some styles mesh better than others. Sometimes RED has two *very* skilled snipers and they alone are enough to prevent BLU from doing much of anything on A/D and PL maps.\r\n\r\nPlaying against better players (like on the Reddit servers) essentially forces you up the learning curve faster. The trade-off is that it's not necessarily a very fun or rewarding experience when you're first starting out. If you're the kind of person who can keep your cool, and not swear off the game after two solid weeks of frustration, then I highly recommend using this method to learn.\r\n\r\nI'll also take this opportunity to plug the [NewToTF2 Subreddit](http://www.reddit.com/r/NewToTF2), which has a lot of information to help answer your more indepth, 'what can I do to help the team' kind of questions. I'm very proud of the body of knowledge and expertise we have accumulated there thus far, and I would encourage you to check it out if you haven't already.",
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"body": "I've been playing since it first came out. last night I played for 90 mins or so, some on reddit servers. I was absolutely worthless. Couldn't hit shit, died very quickly. I'm usually near the middle. But with as many days that I am absolutely worthless, I have days where I am perfectly on my game, sitting near the top of the score board. Some of this may have to do with the teams, though :o",
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No opportunity to ask her out | Background info: Both students, live near to each other and go to some of the same clubs.
Over Christmas I got some tickets and see if she wanted to go, then maybe go out afterwards for drinks and see how it goes but I have had no chance to ask her to go. The clubs both meet haphazardly and I doubt there'll be any meetings before the event early next week and I haven't got her number. We usually just seem to run into each other a lot, usually on the way to university but both times since Christmas we've been in the middle of a conversation with friends so I couldn't.
Any ideas reddit? The only options I can currently see are to blindly hope for a chance very soon or ask on Facebook/email, which I really don't want to do as it's so impersonal. If not then just go with someone of my friends instead and ask another time. | 3 | [
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"body": "rather than let the opportunity pass I would probably just use facebook and make a joke out of how impersonal it is while mentioning there was no other way, then maybe leave your number and ask her to get back to you.",
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"body": "You see her and have the opportunity to talk to her (hint: if she's there, even with friends, you can talk to her) and you still haven't? You haven't even gotten her contact info yet?\n\nLet me ask you this: Why on earth are you spending money on a girl who you have not seen outside the place you met her? Additionally, you don't have her details--she barely qualifies as an acquaintance then. My suggestion is to meet her independently of the club sometime before taking her to some event.\n\nAs for getting her details--email/Facebook are not impersonal. An email to her is still direct communication from you to her as is a Facebook message. They are called contact details because they allow you to (surprise!) contact someone.\n\nNow, apologies if this sounded harsh, but you're sitting in a big pool of poor situation and you're setting up for disappointment as you've described it.",
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Sure karma doesn't matter, but it is a clear representation of what others on this website think of you. Let's take it back to the definition and history of the word. | [Here is the wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma)
Next time you say "downvote me, karma doesn't matter" after saying something rude, insulting, slapdash, or outright "trolling" look back to this. | 8 | [
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"body": "I've made a point similar to this before. Karma does matter - it's a measure of your voice. The more karma you have, the more of a voice you have had in shaping reddit. The more your jokes, your comments, etc. etc. were important enough for somebody else to approve of.\n\nThe number might not matter, but the voice does. \n\nAlso: Please don't downvote dissenting opinions just because you want to show disagreement. ",
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"body": "Oh you poor soul... the 4chan newbies and the diggers are going to downvote this. I love how each and every post like this just reiterates how correct people are in saying posts that attempt to improve the website. Downvoted into the abyss. ",
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"body": "'karma' only matters so much.\nOften comments are down-voted because they are not popular, people misunderstand the comment and other times they are down-voted to stifle debate when people incorrectly think an issue is a no-brainer.",
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"body": "Everyone downvotes opinions they don't agree with so in that sense karma really doesn't matter. It doesn't measure your actions, just how much people agree/disagree with you.",
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Anyone have experience with Retin-A? | Yesterday I talked to my doctor about my acne, I've basically been broken out with every type of zit you can imagine for 2+ years now. He prescribed me a generic of Retin-A.
He, of course, rattled off the side effects for me and all of that other doctorly information. Has anyone had any experience with this medication? Did you get any side effects? Did it actually work for you? How long did it take for you to see results?
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"body": "When I was young, my mother *freaked* when she saw me get any pimples, and they tried Retin-A on me. It.... didn't go well. Basically I was never on it long enough for my skin to adjust, so I would get all the horrible peely part, but it was pretty traumatic for a 10 year old so I would stop before I would see benefits. As an adult, I saw a competent dermatologist who suggested that I put on a moisturizer FIRST (I use Cetaphil- expensive, but highly recommended by Derms), which helps spread the Retin-A more evenly and helps to make sure that the first couple weeks isn't too bad.\n\nJust make sure you have moisturizer before you start using it, because the whole point of it is to peel off your skin. \n\n(Be careful about hair removal/hair bleaching. Once your skin is adjusted, you *might* be okay, but then again, you might not. Threading is your best bet, do a small test area before you let anyone go crazy.)",
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"body": "XY here. Used it for my teenage acne. Didn't really work for me (nothing did, except time), but it did make my skin dry and peely. I'm on clindamycin phosphate now, which worked super-well, although it's making the area between my nose and mouth dry and itchy now. That said, my acne's gone, so I'm gradually laying off the meds now.",
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Female Ejaculation Films To Be Banned In Australia | The thing that interests me is the internet filters they will be using. Will that stop FE videos or the entire site they are on? Don’t most sites no matter what porn genre they cater to have some women having an orgasm?
And what actually is a FE? We have all seen them shoot across the room and take out the camera, but what about something not so violent. Will any woman who shows signs of excessive wetness be banned?
[Female Ejaculation Films To Be Banned In Australia](http://www.msnaughty.com/blog/2010/01/15/female-ejaculation-films-to-be-banned-in-australia/) | 230 | [
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"body": "First they came for the female ejaculators, and I did not speak out– because I was not a female ejaculator...",
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"body": "Female ejaculation is not a real event? WTF? I can't believe their government is backing this crap and using that as an excuse. Thank goodness Eros is looking to fight it!",
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"body": "I know from personal experience that vaginal squirts aren't piss, but what is wrong with pissing? I never thought that in modern western democracy any kind of sexual practice between consenting adults can be considered as illegal. Hey Aussies, why you let live your government? :) The next step will be banning pee altogether, and then you will have to die due to bladder damage.",
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"body": "There is some bad shit happening here in aus with internet filters.\nAny aussie here know how we can fight it?\nLet the ladies rivers of love flow i say!",
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"body": "Has no-one actually properly tested this? Y'know, with science. I've had a very brief experience with a girl who can ejaculate, and it's certainly not piss. Can't they just get some in a beaker, take it down the lab and sort this shit out once and for all?",
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"body": "5 years ago I was doing a lot of research on wha it takes to become an Australian citizen. What I've learned about Australia since then has completely changed my mind. Australians have let teor government go too far. They've given up rights, allowed censorship and it seems like the criminals and politicians (sometimes the same) are the only ones with rights anymore. You couldn't pay me to move to Australia now. What a shame. ",
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"body": "**EASY EXPERIMENT**\n\nGet some female gushers to refrain from drinking for a few hours, get them to eat lots of B vitamins that will make urine darker yellow.\n\nAsk them to get off, and when they 'shoot' - get it in a glass container and check the color:\n\nhttp://nuclearfamily.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/urine-chart.jpg\n\nWith a lack of water, and extra B vitamins the liquid collected will certainly be yellow if it's urine.\n\nIf it's clear - then it's almost certainly not urine.\n\nI can't believe no-one seems to have done this simple test...",
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"body": "You remember when they said the great australian firewall would only ban illegal stuff ?\n\nNow it banned depiction of a solo sex act. Epic fail. \nAlso, male ejaculate is not offensive but female ejaculate is ? I think that's sexism.",
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"body": "Good. Australia deserves to have absolutely everything banned from them. If you tolerate censorship, you deserve censorship. If you think that because you think Thing X is gross that no one should be allowed to see it, then everyone elses opinion of what is gross just got elevated to the level of legislation. For being so intellectually weak, their entire culture should be blocked.",
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"body": "They need to find the biggest slut in Australia to go into their parliament session and fap one out for the entire room.",
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"body": "Wow, I can almost reason and understand the video game ban, but this is just ridiculous to think you can monitor a small portion of porn...\n\nAlso, it looks like Australia wants y'all to be watching gay porn :D",
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"body": "I think someone needs to attend a meeting of the Classification Board to provide a demonstration of female ejaculation.",
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"body": "**Ads on the page are a NSFW.**\n\n Just in case anyone reads this far down in the comments before reading the article...",
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"body": "As soon as we're done with these Arab countries, we need to consider putting all our cool military tech to work liberating Australia. \n\n",
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"body": "YO AUSTRALIA, I'M REALLY HAPPY FOR YOU, AND IMMA LET YOU FINISH, BUT CHINA HAS THE BEST CENSORSHIP OF ALL TIME. OF ALL TIME! ",
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"body": "Thank god I don't live in Australia. Not because I'm a FE fetishist, but rather because everyone in that country is treated like a child. In the US the same may be true when it comes to some things (drugs, drinking age), but really, Australians can't choose what games they want to play or even what to fap to. \n\nFuck that place. The First Amendment . . . Hallelujah!",
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"body": "God I hate what this country is becoming. This pisses me off so much! What right does someone have to dictate what is and what isn't an ''offensive fetish?'' As long as it features consenting adults and doesn't actually cause any harm to those involved, fuck it, people should be able to watch whatever they want in the privacy of their own home. ",
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[TOMT]Movie with God-like alien at North Pole | So there's a few people from this company that keep mining for something in the arctic and continue to go deeper and deeper for their greedy purposes. There's actually an alien down there and he comes up and starts killing people. In the end I remember people thinking that the alien was God himself. This movie was made somewhere between roughly 1985 and 1997 I think.
edit: I don't think it's the thing because he doesn't assimilate with people's bodies. There was no infection the people just had no means to escape. And i'm almost positive it was at north and not south pole. I'll check the movie out though in case I'm wrong bc it sounds interesting. | 9 | [
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"body": "Sound like it could have been a made-for-tv movie then?\n\nPerhaps [The Intruder Within](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082565/) - 1981:\n\nDrillers on an oil rig near Antarctica discover that they accidentaly brought up several prehistoric eggs. One egg hatches and becomes an unstoppable creature",
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It's daybreak on the East Coast, and reddit just surpassed its second benchmark of $62,830 ("Pi" x 2) for Haitian relief through Direct Relief International. Reports trickling out of Haitian relief organizations indicate we have a long way to go and a short time to get there. | Reddit,
This is a humanitarian disaster the likes of which may not have ever been seen in the U.S. and rarely anywhere in the world. If the reports coming out of Haiti are accurate - that hundreds of thousands of people are still so preoccupied with finding food, water, and shelter, that the dead are only very slowly getting retrieved and buried - then the worst is yet to come.
This could be Katrina on crack. And believe me, as someone who evacuated from Katrina, watched its progress on the news, and moved back to New Orleans in December of that year, I am the last person to undersell the devastation that New Orleans still must overcome. But let's face facts about Haiti.
There was no notice and therefore no evacuation. Port-au-Prince is in a small country with very poor (now largely destroyed) infrastructure and few points of departure. And on top of Haiti already being both woefully underdeveloped and brought as low as any place on earth, what we're looking at is essentially triage. It will take years for Haiti to recover in any sort of substantive way, but if we don't do what we can right now then we're incrementally allowing human misery to multiply when many among us could sacrifice the meanest of creature comforts.
Think about scaling back your plans for this weekend. Dig deep. Our community holds itself to a high standard, and so far we have done a lot of good. We should be proud of that. But we know a thing or two about a thing or two, and we know that we can afford to extend our efforts further.
If you haven't set aside even a little bit of money for a donation, please do now. And if you have already donated, reconsider (as I have) whether you're able to spare another couple of bucks in the face of such a massive tragedy that we're only beginning to address.
The reddit donation page at Direct Relief International can be found [here](http://dri.convio.net/site/TR/Events/Tributes?pg=fund&fr_id=1030&pxfid=1511&JServSessionIdr004=r7t58phav1.app245b).
The American Red Cross's Haiti emergency fund donation page can be found [here](https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=1439754868&df_id=4437&4437.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=clz2c46un1.app194a).
Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) has an information page regarding Haiti [here](http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/countries/americas/haiti/index.cfm) as well as its general donation page [here](http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/donations/).
Ben Stiller had been working with Save The Children to build Haitian schools, but for the time being he's redirecting money to U.N. relief efforts [here](http://stillerstrong.org/). | 67 | [
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"body": "I believe it's actually closer to [2π*10^4](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2pi*10^4)\n\nOther than being pedantic, that's really really awesome!",
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"body": "When the appeal came out yesterday, I'd already given money to Medecins Sans Frontieres.\n\nWhen I saw how much the rest of reddit had given, I had to do my part. Very proud to be a redditor right now.",
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What are a few innocuous English words that you
hate, and why? | What are some words that you really don't like for a reason other than the meaning of the word(although those would be interesting as well)? Perhaps the sound or spelling of the word.
I hadn't really given much forethought to my answer before posting this questions, but three words that sprung to mind were:
**disingenuous**- I hate this word because it makes me feel like I'm saying a double negative everytime I use it. I don't know the etymology of the word as of this posting, but the *dis* and *in* make me feel like it's saying "not-not-genuous".
**victuals** -the disparity between the spelling and the pronunciation hurt my head more than *ough.(it's pronounced vit-l)
**rural** -I feel like I'm trying to imitate some sort of animal call when I say this word.
So what are some words that you find unpleasant? | 50 | [
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"body": "Sexting - No one actually uses this word except news reporters and people that are truly out of touch with technology. I cringe every time I hear it. ",
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"body": "I know I'm hardly pushing the boundaries of intellect or etymology with this one, but I really truly loathe the word random. I know, it's an easy one to pick on, but I despise its rampant over-use. When will people stop claiming things/people/comments/events/trousers/aspects of their own idiosyncratic-oh-so-individual behaviour is RANDOM, when what they actually mean is funny/unusual/unexpected/incongrous/worthy of note for some reason/not at all random.\n",
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"body": "*drawer* - It is hard for me to pronounce. \"dror\" is so awkward. It comes out more like \"jhruw-uh\"\n\nWhen I was 5, I hated my preschool teacher's name - Nancy - So much that I resolved I would never say it. I got in trouble for being disrespectful when I finally had to address her one day and called her \"hey, you\"",
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"body": "Unctuous. \n\nIts meaning paired with the fact you have to gag slightly to pronounce it is just awful.",
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"body": "**Proactive**: Which kills me, because the meaning (be prepared) is key in any business (especially in IT.) But the people who use it most, are empty suits trying to sound like they know what they're talking about. \n**Resource**: When used to talk about lumber, oil, water, fine. But when used to talk about your employees, makes my skin crawl.",
"score": 10
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"body": "Cavalry. Probably because my brother used to pronounce it Calvary when we played Age of Empires. That, and because he used to beat me at AoE with cavalry charges X-(",
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"body": "**February**, because its spelling is incongruous with how most people pronounce it (i.e. \"febuary\"), and pronouncing it \"februrary\" also sounds weird.",
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"body": "Conversate. Motherfuckers, this is NOT a word. NOT NOT NOT a word. You can put it in the dictionary all you want Webster, but if I hear you say this I will immediately classify you as an idiot.\r\n\r\n/calming down now",
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"body": "A friend of mine kept using \"per se\" in the same way as \"let's say.\"\r\nFor instance:\r\n\r\n\"So, what if I went to bed at, per se, two in the morning?\"\r\n\r\nFrom that period of time and onward, I cannot stand the term, \"per se.\" ",
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"body": "Lesbian - sounds like a disease.\n\nPanties - ick. \n\nMy own last name which is Bradley is terrible on the tongue for some reason. ",
"score": 8
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"body": "quixotic - Why do we pronounce it kwiks-ah-tic, when we know it comes from Don Quixote which is pronounced kee-oh-tay?",
"score": 6
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"body": "Runny\n\nI can't think of any situation where runny can be used in a positive context. It is just a disgusting word.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Library. Because I can never get my mouth to pronounce the first r. Sounds like \"liberry\" and makes me sound dumb.",
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"body": "Anecdotal.\n\nIt rolls off the tongue like a square wheeled garbage truck.\n\nSo does nomenclature. It would be a cool word if it didn't feel like chewing on rocks and barbed wire when pronounced.",
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"body": "**Quaint** - I once went on a trip to New Orleans with 4 rather obnoxious 'friends'. One them described, what felt like everything in that city, as 'quaint'. I still cringe when I hear it.",
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"body": "**Adjacent**\n\nHere's why. Back in school, from time to time I would zone out to what was being said by the teacher/professor, either through sleepiness or just sheer boredom. Well, when you aren't paying attention and someone says the word \"adjacent\" it sounds an AWFUL lot like \"Jason\". To which I would instantly pop to attention and wonder if I had been called on or not. I pretty much shun the spotlight anyway, so to be called on in class is one of my least favorite things, followed only by being called on in class while not paying attention. The rush of adrenalin would shoot through me and my eyes would bulge out of my head as I would be on hyper-alert to try to figure if my name had in fact been called or not. 99% of the time, it hadn't, but it didn't stop the effect. \n\nUgh.",
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"body": "Orientated. I know it is a bona fide word but it always seems like a mispronounced version of oriented. I hate it. My rage for it burns a seething hole in its heart. ",
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"body": "I cringe whenever I hear the word \"panties\". It sounds like some effort was made to be cutesy, but ends up sounding really creepy.",
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"body": "Goddamn fucking Marlboro. I cannot pronounce that to save my soul. Oh, also just to be a dick: innocuous.",
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Ask Proggit: Best Project Management Solution for multiple projects? | Hi /r/programming,
My small team of developers and I work on a lot of projects. We've been managing everything in Trac for about two years now and everyone pretty much loves it.
Unfortunatly, different projects have different external partners and therefore each one requires a seperate Trac installation (we don't want a partner for Project A seeing what we're doing on Project B). It's getting to the point now where day-to-day management of tasks becomes difficult because we have to visit 10 different Trac instances to find out what's going on. There's also a lot of duplication of Wiki content, etc, because of this seperation.
Can you recommend a tool (or even just a plug-in) that will help my team track multiple projects as well as provide the seperation required by the business?
-PumpkinSeed | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm biased, because it's my startup, but you might check out [Agile Zen](http://agilezen.com/). We've made it pretty easy to work with multiple companies on different projects.",
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What do you secretly envy in other people? | Seriously, I envy people who are capable of not browsing Reddit when at work. Damn you, good 'ol gentlefolk! | 6 | [
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"body": "I don't envy other people. They're usually just as screwed up as I am and have problems of their own. I can cope with my own problems, not theirs. If I had their benefits I'd have their problems and I probably couldn't cope with them as easily as I do my own. ",
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IAmA Request: Conan O'Brien | He's going to be out of a job pretty soon, which will give him plenty of time to answer our questions. In all seriousness, though, with the level of interest and support Reddit has shown for CoCo, I imagine we could get enough support together to make some sort of Official Request or something. | 1,004 | [
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"body": "Perhaps I can refer you to a [comment you made](http://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/apuls/conan_obrien_puts_his_show_for_sale_on_craigslist/c0it13n) just 3 hours before this post?",
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"body": "Possibilities:\n\n- You have no sense of reality\n- You are a comment whore\n- You have no sense of reality\n- All of the above.",
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"body": "You might be more successful suggesting a Reddit interview with Conan than an IAmA. It would probably be much more informative as well.",
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"body": "The CoCo fan page on Facebook has 150k members, 100k of them in the last 24 hours or so. Good luck getting him to stop by here.",
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"body": "In order to keep it easy to read, we'd like to keep the IAMA frontpage dedicated to IAMA Responses only... so please remember to only submit IAMA Requests to the [Official Request list](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/almtg/official_request_list_the_fifth_element/).",
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"body": "How many of these celebrity AMA requests actually pan out? I think I see a different one very often, but I can't recall many (any?) being actually fulfilled.",
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Fathers of Reddit need your advice At hospital for birth | Well I am at the hospital with my wife for the birth of our first child. Looks like it is going to be a long day (already been here since 10pm last night) Need to find something to keep me entertained with out bugging the woman pushing the watermelon out the hole the size of a lemon.
Fathers:
What did you do during the down time of the birth?
What did you wish you did?
What should I do to keep entertained/awake? (other than Reddit)
Thanks for all your advice every bit helps. I can keep checking back if I have time and answering questions if anyone has any.
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"body": "Put your entertainment aside for now and just be there for your wife. Besides...once the kid is there it's not about you anymore so you might as well get acclimated now.\n\nEdit: Congrats btw! I have one 4yo and one on the way in a few months (both boys). Also, I don't mean my tone in my comment to come off like a jerk, but yea, shit changes.",
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"body": "Get as much sleep as you possibly can, seriously, you will never be as tired as you will be over the next few days. Especially if the baby is born in the middle of the night and family start coming to visit at like 7 am, you're gonna want to be dead.",
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"body": "Congrats man, just keep your shit together. First one's always the hardest. Sounds like you guys got there way too early. False contractions? I took my wife to the hospital and back *twice* before she was really ready for the birth. Your doctors should have a good estimate on how long it will be based on how much her cervix has opened - so here's my advice: if it's more than 2-3 hours, try to get some sleep. Your wife might need you up and alert after the baby is born!",
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"body": "First of all, congratulations! \nBoy or girl?\nAnyway, my advice? Read. There will be a lot of downtime, and it's better to just go somewhere else, at least in your mind.\nGood luck, and remember, keep a sense of humor about you.",
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"body": "get some sleep I was there for 24+ hours .. the little one didn't want to come out .. it must have been warm in there :)",
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"body": "i sat next to my wife the whole time. ya it was boring,14 hours straight, but i wouldnt change it for anything. both of our families where there so atlest we had company. other than that i was checking reddit lol",
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Are there any laws against/dealing with time-travel? What would be the bounds on possible legal response if a meddling time-traveler was found out? | (Assuming that the act creates a new universe.)
In terms of drastic responses, I can see the traveler tried as an effective genocidaire (for erasing/killing everyone in the original timeline), and I can conceive of an extreme legal defense that since the traveler makes this universe the continuation of his old universe's timeline the only operative legal system is whatever reigned in his time.
But really, I'm interested in minutia. Are there any countries in the world with something on the books? To save ex post facto, etc. | 6 | [
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"body": "If someone can time travel successfully, I would think they'd be leaving our realm of causality behind and blaze their own trail through time. We'd continue forward in our timeline while they would be bouncing like a SuperBall™ in a basketball court to some uncharted regions of space and time.\n\nTo them, every step forward or backward in time would be into completely virgin territory, unless the destination has specifically developed some means to monitor them, or some time travel authority which supercedes them has oversight and is able to systematically log and monitor the activities of time travellers throughout the multiverse.\n\nAs a result, in the absence of such awareness, they might be able to freely pillage and plunder countless timelines with no one being the wiser. People going missing and ending up found as skeletons decades later or never found at all, items seeming to disappear inexplicably and chalked up as having been stolen by some child or some repair guy, stuff we might write off as \"freak\" incidents might indeed be the whispey deeds of a time traveller, swiping whatever they please (along the lines of the recent movie Jumper, except into whole different timelines rather than just different geographical locations), taking it to some timeline they have set up shop in, then keeping it as a trophy or dumping it as garbage.\n\nThere's no reason to believe that time travellers don't exist, they just might not be interested in making themselves apparent to us in our timeline. Why, I could purport myself to be a time traveller and say that tomorrow night's lottery numbers are **<CENSORED BY TIME POLICE>** and let millions of people win, but that would draw too much undesirable attention to myself, particular considering that December 12, 2012 really will signal the emergence of **<CENSORED BY TIME POLICE>** and **<CENSORED BY TIME POLICE>** upon the world.\n\nEDIT: What the...?!",
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"body": "> Please be aware, if you are in a legal or medical situation, this is not a substitute for real legal or medical help.",
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"body": "> Are there any laws against/dealing with time-travel? \r\n\r\nThere would, will, and always be, after I am done with my time machine. ",
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"body": "The [Time Police](http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2009/002/7/8/Warden_Of_Superjail_by_The_Time_Police.jpg) will be after you.",
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Survivors in Haiti: "God loves me" -- I guess God didn't love the other 100,000 dead? | Watching the Today show this morning, an interview with a mother whose children didn't die when her house collapsed stated, "I knew then that God loved me." My question for her would be, "What about all the others who DID die? What do you think God's opinion of them are? What do you think the mothers who lost their children think?"
I'm tired of the reasoning by the religious that just because others are less fortunate, somehow they must be special and blessed. I think this is from where the superiority complexes stem in America's religious. | 65 | [
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"body": "My money would be that she would answer, \"It was all part of God's plan\" or some other nonsensical evasive and spoon-fed rhetoric",
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"body": "You don't have to be an atheist to be upset when people say these things. My mom is a Christian, but comments like this make her boil over. She won't say anything to the person's face, and neither would I. I understand they are coping with loss. But its just cruel to spew that nonsense on TV. Other people who lost family and who believe in God are having horrible moments right now. Its cruel to say your child was spared because God loves you. Its probably MORE cruel for one Christian to say this to other Christians. IMHO.",
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"body": "i was watching the today show as well. they interviewed this girl (a missionary) who was trapped in a collapsed building. the local haitians worked for 8 hours to dig her out. she was fine. just a few cuts and bruises.\n\nshe was on a plane in a few hours and on the way home. how fucked up is that? she's all about being there to force her religion on the poor people, but as soon as they need actual help off they go. fuck those self righteous motherfuckers.",
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"body": "Honestly I couldn't care less about some people in Haiti being religious right now, or their reasoning. This is a woman trying to cope with the death of 100,000+ people in her country and the near deaths of her children. And here we sit laughing at her religious beliefs...",
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"body": "Same thing for the Italian earthquake. \"It was an act of God that we lived.\" And God's judgment on all the poor bastards that died? Pathetic, selfish reasoning.",
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"body": "What is sad is all the religious charities that will flood the place with the intention of passing out bibles.",
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"body": "I hear this nonsense every time a tornado hits my region and a neighborhood is wiped out, except for a few houses. Those assholes with houses intact are invariably on the news saying, \"God spared us.\" \n\nEven if they believe that horseshit, why the hell don't they have sense enough to keep it to themselves??? I mean, everyone around them is going though misery and they basically say, \"Fuck those assholes. They must have done something to piss off god. Thank goodness I'm among the righteous.\" Some of the most cold and callous thoughts I ever hear. ",
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Dear International redditors: If you
woke up tommorow and China had
dropped off the face of the earth,
would you care? | I'm continuing the same notion found here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/apyef/dear_international_redditors_if_you_woke_up/
I am not chinese but this comment sparked my interest: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/apyef/dear_international_redditors_if_you_woke_up/c0isyu7
If China was gone who would fill the power vacuum? What would happen to mass production? | 3 | [
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"body": "Dear International redditors: If you woke up tommorow and USA had dropped off the face of the earth, would you care? ",
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"body": "Since pretty much every item in Target, Walmart, and similar stores comes from China, most of the rest of the world would be in deep shit, starting immediately.\n\nIt's not just toys. It's pretty much every solid object in your house excluding furniture, clothes and food.",
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"body": "Yes. Yes I would. Just where the fuck would I get my ipods, cheap automated plastic singing fish, those little toys you get in the plastic eggs with the chocolate shell, and fortune cookies from if this actually happened?\n\nRidiculous.",
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IAMA father at the hospital waiting on wife to give birth to first child AMA | Well I am at the hospital waiting for the birth of our son.
Thought I would answer any questions that Reddit might have about the process/ procedures around wife giving birth for anyone interested.
I can every try to ask the wife questions people have since she has an epidural so isn't in pain now. | 5 | [
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"body": "You're doing it wrong. Get off reddit and be present in the greatest event in your life! Do come back tell us about it later thogh. Congratulations and good luck to both of you!",
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Hey Reddit, English is not my first language. How about giving me and other redditors from non english speaking countries a break on minor spelling and grammar errors? | Honestly I try my best. But sometimes the nit-picking from grammar natzis drives me insane.
Edit: Thanks for all the comments. Don't get me wrong since I joined Reddit my spelling and grammar have improved significantly, and I have all of you to thank for this. I will continue to try and improve.
I guess most of my frustration stems from using the internet to check my spelling, and the source not always being correct. [for example](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=grammar%20natzi)
When google tells me "exceptable" is "acceptable" and I am later corrected. My frustration only intensifies.
In the end I would never ask for special treatment, so perhaps I worded my title incorectly. Some people will always care about grammar more than others. Obviously I am the latter.
Edit 2: [nuf said](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JLiUK-wQ2g&feature=related) | 1,016 | [
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"body": "English is my second language and I actually want to know when I'm doing mistakes, so thank you grammar nazis!",
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"body": "The grammar nazis are the best way to learn. It was through them correcting other people that I finally memorized how to spell \"definitely\" and the correct usage of \"this begs the question\" vs \"this raises the question.\"\n\nDon't take the nitpicking seriously. It happens to everyone, no matter what their level of English is.",
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"body": "Sorry, but I disagree.\n\nMy first language is Spanish, I never took a dedicated english course besides the very basic (almost deficient) and obligatory classes during my formal education, also I've never visited an english speaking country nor do I have friends who speaks it. I learned English mostly through the internet, books, magazines, TV, videogames, manuals, etc, \n\nSo I guess I still has a lot to learn, if someone makes me aware of my mistakes, they're really making me a favor.\n\nI assume your 1st language is Portuguese, I barely know the basics of it, but compared to Spanish, English is extremely easy to learn, Ex: There are no genre assignation for adjetives and things, There are no ortographic accents, adjetives are located before the noun (imho this is a more logical way to do it), etc\n\nalso (this is very subjetive) but when I read in english everything seems more concise, concrete and dynamic, I love english literature because of this, in contrast spanish literature seems very slow, superfluous and pompous.",
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"body": "I see people apologising for English being their second language on forums all the time, usually in a long winded sentence that is probably a hassle to type out.\n\nI say append '(esl)' to the end of your post (standing for 'English second language') and be done with it. People will catch on eventually.",
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"body": "I say screw it, I don't want you guys getting off for having english as a second language when those of us that had to suffer in the American Educational system don't get a pass.\r\n\r\nSerious.",
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"body": "You could either 1) let people know that English isn't your first language or 2) harden the fuck up.",
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"body": "there's nothing wrong with correcting mistakes, it's how we all learn, but it can be done with kindness, you don't have to call someone an idiot just because they make an honest mistake, sometimes the corrections are quite savage in tone",
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"body": "1) Most of the errors made are by people where English is their first (and possibly only) language. \n\n2) Learn from the comments rather than take them as hate/nit-picking. It's a pretty cheap teacher.",
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"body": "Don't take it personally. Reddit is a haven for decent grammar and spelling on the net, and long may it remain so. ",
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"body": "Having native speakers correct you helps you improve. I'm learning Chinese and I love it when I get corrected by native speakers because it's a chance to improve.",
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"body": "Don't take it personally, it's all they have. Do you really want to take **everything** away from them?",
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"body": "English is my second language too, yet I find it incredible how many Americans make the common spelling mistakes -- such as \"then\" and \"than\", \"loose\" and \"lose\". I would never confuse these words as they were pretty much among the first few hundred words I learned in elementary school.",
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"body": "Reddit has a very significant population of computer programmers, trained to spot syntax errors in code.. I think grammar/spelling correction would fall under the same mindset, so requesting Reddit to ease up on the grammar/spelling corrections is roughly equivalent to asking a pride of lions to ease up on the whole 'eating raw meat' thing.",
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"body": "Jesus, If you can write this well, you have nothing to worry about. There are lots of native speakers who can not write as well as you can. Some people are just trying to be helpful. Some people just like to look for errors in other people, esp. those who they disagree with or dislike for some reason. Some people are just really sensitive to language use and it pisses them off when the language is used incorrectly. Try not to let it get you down. In some situations, spelling and grammar are very important. The internet is not one of them...",
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"body": "Good luck with that. For many people, it's their only way of feeling superior to others.\n\nTry to remember that for every FTFY they are saying more about themselves than they are about you.",
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"body": "ASSHOLES ON REDDIT ALWAYS DOWNVOTE PEOPLE FOR SPELLING MISTAKES. Not everyone but some \"perfect engrish\" redditors seem to be unable to be humble enough, to look over minor mistakes. Often what upsets you, when you see it in others, is what you hate about yourself...",
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"body": "Deal! But only if you promise to make a very strong effort to use have where appropriate and not of; we hate that.",
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"body": "They correct your grammar because they have nothing of content to add to any conversation anytime anywhere.",
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"body": "@brazilliandanny, I guessed it would be you when I saw this headline. Don't think I've ever personally corrected you, but I will echo the sentiment expressed by many others: aren't you interested in improving? Most foreigners around me are happy to be corrected. Have you given up learning? \n\nBy the way, personally, offering a correction does not in any way shape or form mean that I do not find your comments interesting or insightful - which I do.",
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"body": "I'll let a grammar nazi call out my errors the day he can do it in proper spanish.\n\nI speak spanish natively and speak english in a way that most gringos (americans) actually think I'm form the states. I may mistype here and there (in both languages, because I try to type fast), but then again, I speak/type two languages fluently. \n\nHow many americans can say that?",
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"body": "In response to your second edit, I humbly submit [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4EAGiefnxc) instead.",
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"body": "The Grammar Nazi's have met and have made a decision on your request:\n\nThey will cut foreigners a break of spelling and grammar, but you're going to have to wear something on your shirt so you're easily identifiable. ",
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"body": "Yes, people give me shit about it all the time, but mostly just to use the situation to act like smartasses and dicks. Most of the time it's just someone being an ass, saying that I should learn how to spell, not saying what the hell I wrote wrong.\r\n\r\nOnly when I mention that I know English from Cartoon Network and CNN people feel bad and mostly delete their complaints or say they're sorry and leave me alone.\r\n\r\nGrammar Nazis! If someone makes one mistake in 5 or more sentences - it's just an accident, if it doesn't stick out - it's just an accident. If it's a big mistake and there are more of them - politely say what the hell is wrong, don't act like a self righteous jackass just because someone from the other side of the planet wrote something wrong on his phone in a comment made to a picture of a cat.",
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"body": "How else are you going to learn? Perhaps people should be a bit more polite and helpful about it, likewise you could be more grateful for the free English tuition.\n",
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"body": "I would sooner die. English is my first language, and I like to pretend my spelling and grammar are pretty darn good. There is nothing I hate more than when I make a mistake in front of someone who knows that I did, and they don't correct me. As far as I'm concerned *not* correcting people is the rude thing to do. I guess I assume that because I don't want to look ignorant, everyone else doesn't want to look ignorant too. Perhaps this is a cultural bias.",
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"body": "I'm glad you are frustrated, to be quite honest. Consider it a honour to be noticed and a privilege not to be ignored.\r\n\r\nI understand sometimes people will correct you because they want to knock you down, but there are also those that just want to help. Don't always think you know which ones are which, sarcasm is rarely conveyed in text.\r\n\r\nLearn to use the energy directed at you for your benefit. I believe that sometimes you do, and sometimes you don't. That is really the source of your frustration.",
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"body": "Up-voted because pedantry is annoying. Before you get all grammar-core just follow this simple guide. Ask yourself: \"Did the minor grammatical error really obscure the message of the poster, or are you just being a pedantic douche?\"",
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"body": "Don't let the grammar nazis get you down, add a disclaimer. If you claim to be a foreigner or similarly uneducated in the nuances of English pardons shall be yours. If they're not willing to make exceptions reddit will downvote the offending scoundrel to oblivion. \n\nFor those of us who speak English as a first language, and seek to debate topics somewhat clearly, it is a real boon that the grammar nazis correct us. Same with the logic nazis, and so on and so forth.\n\nAlthough, I have seen my fair share of pretenders who claim to be grammar or logic nazis and who merely disagree.",
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"body": "I'm a slight grammar Nazi, so maybe I'm not the right person to say this (as I am ze enemy), but I disagree.\n\nFor example, I always spelt \"definitely\" as \"definatly\" (or \"defiantly\" as many spell checkers recommend for \"definatly\", weirdly) for years until a redditor pointed it out. I learnt from my mistake, corrected it, and now look less of a muppet. \n\nSince then I've realised there's nothing worse than somebody not pointing out something I'm doing wrong. If you think, or even more so, *know* I'm doing something wrong, **tell me**, please!\n\n*Disclaimer: This was written at 4am, drunk, so I apologise for any grammatical errors. You don't need to point them out, but you probably will anyway.*",
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Anyone have any family members in prison.. | And if so what did they do?
My brother got a 3rd strike in California, for burglary and got 25 years. | 3 | [
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"body": "My sister got out not too long ago, but was in there for 5 years.\n\nShe and her boyfriend attacked the man who raped her (the rape was never reported and he was never charged or convicted). They both were convicted of the same felonies: aggravated assault and aggravated robbery. She, a pretty half asian girl, got 5 years. Her boyfriend, an uneducated black man, got 25 years. ",
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"body": "My dad is staying in a prison in Canada. He has about 18 years left. He was indited for voluntary manslaughter. His neighbor raped my older sister, and he lost his shit, so to speak.",
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Best webcam for Skype 640x480
(VGA) at 30FPS? | I need a no special features webcam that can do good 640x480 30fps video in Skype.
I saw the Microsoft Lifecam Cinema webcam is pretty decently priced but reviews says it can get as low as 10fps in skype. Any suggestions? | 14 | [
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"body": "Logitech 9000, wide angle, real autofocus, glass lens, very good in low light, best integrated mic out of many cameras i've tried",
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Hey Reddit, I volunteered to teach my daughter's class next week. Suggestions on what I should teach a group of 6/7 year old kids? | It's an alternative school that uses the Freinet methodology so something project based would be ideal. The session is 2-3 hours long.
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"body": "if it is warm where you live you can always do an outside biology adventure. Get some of those awesome cups that have a magnifying lid and go catch some bugs. If you're not afraid of spiders you can teach the difference between spiders and insects (# of legs obviously) If it's not warm. . . use the same cups and get some snow and they can see the difference between the flakes. Talk about how water is awesome in that way. ",
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"body": "Firstly, you cannot do 1 lesson that lasts 2 to 3 hours with children this young. I would reccomend maybe 5 shorter lessons, with songs and chants to bridge between the 2. I do have an idea for one of your lessons. Feel free to message me and I can email you with other ideas if you like this one.\n\nYou should do a lesson on materials.\n\n* You will need: A large mixing bowl, baby wipes (for the hands of the children who accidentally get sticky or who help you with the mixing), 3 small plastic cups per group of children, lots of salt, water and flour. \n.. [the lesson ends with making salt dough, so practice making some yourself so you know how much salt/flour/water to use to make it with the proper consistancy, else it might be very runny or very powdery and not mix properly]\n\n* Split the class into groups of 4 or 5. \n* Distribute 3 unlabelled cups to each group...one with some salt, one with flour and one with water (label the samples A B and C so you can give clear instructions). \n* First talk about how important it is not to taste any of the things in the containers (ask why this might be? you do not know what is in the cup and it may be dangerous).\n* Ask the children to pass around the sample labelled A (salt), and tell them they may touch, smell and look at it.\n* Ask questions to illicit language from the children (What does this feel like? What does it smell like? - you are looking for vocabulary like \"grainy\" or \"rough\")\n* Do you know what it might be (take guesses and instead of saying whether they are wrong or right, ask who else thinks this?) Tell them what it is.\n* Repeat this with the other substances (looking to illicit vocabulary like \"powdery\" and \"like liquid\" or \"runny\" for the other 2)\n* Ask the children how the substances are the same, and how are they different? Does the flour feel like the salt? how are they different? If we poured each of them on the table would they all flow like the water?\n* Ask what they think would happen if they put some of the salt into the water? Why do you think this would happen?\n* Ask a member from each group to put some of the salt in the water and stir it with a lollipop stick. What happened? It dissolved.\n* What do you think would happen if we put some flour into the water? (same again - but give out a new sample of fresh water bc the salt is already in the first one)\n* Ask what would happen if we mixed all 3?\n* Gather the children around you and pick one or 2 quiet children with their hand up to help you mix larger amounts of the substances together in a mixing bowl in order to make \"salt dough\".\n* Talk about how the new substance is different from the ingrediants. Is it still runny like the water? no. Grainy like the salt? no. Powdery like the flour? no... because sometimes when you put 2 different things together we get something very different.",
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"body": "If it's a \"freinet school\" you could do a philosophy lesson, on \"simple\" topics. Launch a topic and let the kids talk about it.",
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HELP! I need to learn the basics Topology ASAP. | This might sound vague, but I'd like to know the basics of topology. Are there any online resources that could help me with this? | 4 | [
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"body": "I understand: the terminology can be confusing. You see, the *vague topology* is just the weak* topology on the on the Banach space of continuous functions vanishing at infinity under the supremum norm. This is a natural topology in which to consider convergence of probability measures, since by one of the Riesz representation theorems, the dual of the aforementioned Banach space is the space of complex-valued measures under the total variation norm. Quite simple, really!",
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"body": "It *does* sound vague!\n\nI don't know anything about your background, [this](http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4kpqBEgkp1IJ:www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/damian.giaouris/pdf/various/Topology_for_dummies.pdf+topology+for+dummies&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbRNMDEJR4m1xEGmlciSH3AJQ6JuWw&pli=1) might help.\n",
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"body": "So you want to learn the basics of topology ASAP for a research project in a discrete math course?\n\nThis makes zero sense. You don't know what you want to do, but you need to do it now? Why? Because it sounds cool? What's the project, exactly?\n\nIf you want to look at something interesting that mixes combinatorics and topology, [Sperner's lemma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperner%27s_lemma) and its poof might be up your alley.\n\nP.S. Wikipedia and Wolfram Mathworld will probably tell you more than you ever wanted to know about topology. Poke around until you know what you're looking for.",
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If you could change your name to anything, what would you choose? | I would probably go with either Dick Wiggly or one of the original American Gladiators, like Turbo or Gemini. | 36 | [
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"body": "My nephew's middle name was almost Turbo. They decided on Anthony instead. I think the nurses at the hospital thought my brother was crazy.",
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Please meet BlueOrange, redditor with a cause, redditor of the day on January 15, 2010 | Male or female? Male
Age? 32
Relationship status? Single
Cats or Dogs? Dogs
Favorite beverage? Food? Beer and Indian food
Favorite movie? Music? Book? Game? In this order - Shawshank Redemption, Fleet Foxes,
Age of Spiritual Machines, hide and seek (I play this with my nieces and nephews, never gets old)
What is your favorite word or expression? You only have one shot, live like it
What is your biggest pet peeve? People that cancel at the last minute without a good excuse
What general area of the country you live in? Do you love it? I live in Buenos Aires.
It's a great city but I'm ready to move on.
What was the best thing about 2009? Professionally I had an amazing year. Personally not so much.
What are you looking forward to in 2010? A new year and a new decade (well, not technically, but whatever). New opportunities. A new continent to live on.
If you were granted one do-over what would it be? I would have gotten my Eagle Scout. Seriously.
All things considered what is the most important thing in the world to you? Service. I've been given a lot in life, the least I can do is give something back.
Concerning reddit:
How long did you lurk before signing up? Not long. Maybe a week.
Total number of reddit identity’s you’ve had? Three.
What are a couple of your favorite subreddits? The nonprofit, pics, politics (oops. that's three)
What do you do when you’re not on reddit? I work full-time for Idealist.org and run a nonprofit called
[FROG](http://www.guyfrog.org/)
Do you think reddit has changed in the last year or so? If so, do you think it’s been for the better?
Yeah, still as snarky as ever but in a much better mood. Definitely for the better...and the community as a whole has gotten much funnier.
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"body": "One day while walking on the streets of Buenos Aires I spotted a gringo from a mile away. He was wearing a shirt from a pretty well known college in the US, and reading a book in English. My boyfriend and I struck up a conversation with him and we became friends as soon as we heard he was a redditor. That redditor was BlueOrange and he kinda rocks!",
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"body": "Hey BlueOrange, can you give us an idea of what it's like in Buenos Aires? And why you're ready to move on? I'd be keen to hear about that.",
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So you want to understand light meters and exposure values? | Fred Parker's [THE ULTIMATE EXPOSURE COMPUTER](http://www.fredparker.com/ultexp1.htm) is an amazing tutorial for the beginners, amateurs and advanced photographers who want to get hands on with manual photography and be able to understand light metering and exposure values. | 62 | [
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"body": "This was a fine article, until I got to this line about aperture values (I added the bold):\n\n>Like the shutter speed series, each progression represents half as much light (moving to the right) as the preceding number. But why do the numbers look so odd? **I recommend that you ignore it,** because it doesn't matter anyway. Just accept that each progression represents half as much light as the preceding number.\n\nThe reason aperture values look odd is because the value is related to the radius of the aperture, not the aperture's area. The amount of light hitting the sensor is directly proportional to the area of the aperture. The area is proportional to the square of the radius (thanks, Euclid). So that means if you double the radius, you quadruple the amount of light hitting the sensor.\n\nAs a result, aperture values are expressed in multiples of the square root of two, which is approximately 1.4. So going from f/1.4 to f/2 will cut the light input by half (1/1.4 * 1/1.4 ~= 1/2).\n\nOther than that, excellent article.",
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"body": ">Modern electronic cameras may lack certain features of the older, mechanical cameras (such as a button that allows you to see the depth of field that will be present in your photograph)\n\n...Nope...",
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"body": "If you don't like (or trust) your built-in **reflective meter** in the camera, consider using an **incident light meter**. \n\nHere's some [info and a short tutorial](http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/meters.shtml#A%20Tutorial%20on%20Incident%20Metering).",
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You know what would be awesome? | A place where local homebrewers could sell and trade their brews and equipment.
Shame it'd be illegal. Laws suck. :)
I envision a place where homebrewers could stock a shelf of beer for a small fee (prices differing for refrigeration vs. open shelves). Maybe have the smallest space available be for two cases (since that's generally a 5 gallon batch) and go all the way up to kegs. And have a counter for tastings, where homebrewers can offer some brew to the store to allow tasting, then the store charges customers maybe $5 to taste 10 homebrews (at certain times and from available homebrews). Have a separate part of the store where homebrewers who have upgraded their equipment can sell their old stuff. Or maybe DIYers can sell their creations like immersion chillers or whatever. Even have an area for locally grown hops.
I think it'd be great.
EDIT: I found [this site](http://www.brewersassociation.org/pages/government-affairs/self-distribution-laws) which lists the states and if you can be licenses to self-distribute or not. I guess if, as a homebrewer, you got a license to do so, then the idea could work. Of course, my state does not allow self distribution. | 12 | [
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"body": "There is a place where homebrewers can sell their brews. It's called a liquor store. But you need all the requisite licences.\n\nI may be wrong, but I think trading beer for beer is OK...but not trading money for beer, no matter what club/group/private entity you claim to be.",
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What are some local/unsigned bands in your town that you want discovered? | Everyone likes a band that no one really knows about. I work with a local record label scouting bands. Is there anyone we should be looking out for?
Also, in your opinion, what do you think is holding that band back from "making it"?
Here are a few recommendations from Florida:
Jacksonville, FL - 20WT
Tampa, FL - Rise of Saturn and Look Right Penny
Miami, FL - AddaX | 10 | [
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"body": "It's funny, I was engineering an Indy student night for LSE London for 8 years and also doing a little A&R for a major looking for new talent at the time. I saw literally thousands of new bands in my time doing this job and never found one band that I considered worth signing. A few good bands did come my way, but they were already signed. I gave it up in the end, the constant screaming noise of shit guitar playing and bad drumming was doing my hearing in. \n\nJust goes to show how many people have a dream of making it big in the music industry... but never will. ",
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"body": "Charlotte, NC- The Lo & Beholds\n\nThey are available on iTunes, it is a worthy purchase for \"Wild Choirs\"",
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I'm a video editor still using Tiger & FCP Studio 2 on a 2006 macbook (note: not Pro); how much longer before I'm forced to jump ship to Snow Leopard (and new version software)? | A lot of free apps and latest versions of everything no longer seem to like Tiger. Anyone else in my position? Or am I being stubbornly cheap & silly?
By the way: I'm broke. Any and all condescension, berating and ridicule is warmly welcomed. | 7 | [
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"body": "You want us to predict when your hardware will fail, or when the slightly-old-but-functional software no longer satisfies your requirements, or some new software without an old tiger-compatible version comes along that you absolutely need?\n",
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"body": "In college I interned at a local TV station that was running avid on an old pre-G3 powermac to edit promos. This was in 2005 in a top 10 market. I'm sure the move to HD forced them to upgrade it eventually. So unless you need to upgrade, why would you if you don't have the money.\n\nEdit: I remember it running OS 8.6 and it didn't have enough memory to keep AVID and Photoshop open at the same time so they had a first gen bondi imac set up to run photoshop 5 (and a tape database in filemaker pro). TV stations are cheap.",
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"body": "Depends on what you're editing. If your clients start asking for hi-def, then things are going to start taking a LONG time. But if you have a steady client and you're doing similar work over and over for them, then I say just stick with what you have. But upgrading to Snow Leopard is cheap, man. I mean, it's only $30. If your margins are that thin, maybe you should take a little time and find a new client or two to add to the mix. But as for Final Cut, you can ride with Final Cut 2 for a long time.",
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I'm not attracted to him anymore but... | Yeah, I know there are probably dozens of questions already up about this but I've read through a few and it just doesn't feel like my exact problem.
I've been with this guy for about 3 years. He's very intelligent and cute and funny and perfect. I couldn't see myself being with anyone else for the rest of my life, but I don't feel attracted to him anymore.
I dream about having sex with him and it's really amazing but then i wake up and the feelings are gone.
What i find odd is that i find other people attractive, just not him. I don't want to leave him or cheat on him, i just want to find him as attractive as all these other people.
We have talked about it and he's very upset about this fact, but i just don't know how to fix it.
I have a few questions:
Does anyone else experience this?
What do you think is the real problem?
What do you think I can do to remedy the situation?
All your answers are much appreciated.
Thanks Reddit. | 36 | [
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"body": "He probably allowed you to emasculate him somewhere along the line.\n\nBro needs to find his inner man-raptor again.",
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"body": "Yes, I went through the exact same situation. Because I cared about him so much, and he loved me so much, I stuck around in the relationship for 10 years. But it wasn't fair to either one of us. I wasn't going to become more attracted to him all of a sudden, and our sex life kept getting worse and worse - I kept resenting him more and more for pushing it on me, and he kept resenting me for not wanting it. There became no physical affection at all. So you have to seriously ask yourself whether you were in fact ever attracted to this man - and whether this is just a phase you're going through - or whether you would be better just as friends.",
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"body": "I've had a similar situation except I was the boyfriend. 4-5 months ago my girlfriend started rejecting most of my advances. I became very frustrated so I eventually just gave up and waited for her to come to me. It never happened. I'm not sure what exactly the issue was, but the situation is still similar.\n\nI think you need to leave. Being in a relationship without physical affection when you still want it is very torturous. It hurts, and it hurts deep. He will be better off if you just leave now and see how things play out. If you find that it was just a phase and you become attracted to him, then you can come back and see if he'll take you back. Just make sure that you make sure you are over this phase before you get back together with him. He'll know if you're still not attracted to him, and it will be even worse for him than it was before. \n\nI've been on the other side of this, and it really sucks. He's probably going to try to convince you to stay with him while you work this out, but he probably doesn't know what's best for him right now. I can only talk about my own experience, but I was literally blinded by my love. I couldn't see that things were not great and that I would be better off out of the relationship. All I knew was I wanted to be with this girl no matter what.\n\nAnyway, my advice is to leave now and see what happens. Come back only if your attraction to him comes back, not just because you miss him. Hopefully you can figure out what it is about him that you don't find attractive. To be honest, this most likely signals the end of the relationship. Please don't drag him along in the relationship while you are not attracted to him. It's hell for him, trust me.",
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"body": "Passion comes from novelty and risk, and is the antithesis of a long term relationship. If you live for passionate love, that's fine. Just don't wonder why none of your relationships last more than 5 years (in many cases much less).",
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"body": "Went through the same thing with my ex, took about 6 years but it eventually all fell apart... You really cant force it... Personally, I think my issue was I became less attracted as she slowly became more dependent on me... She had few friends and never went out unless I called up her friends and suggested dinner...\n\nIf you really want to save it then be honest with yourself and think about what you are looking for in others... Did your BF once have that? Was it fitness, charm, style or humor? Or do you now realize that the honeymoon phased has passed and things are becoming serious? Think about what it is you are really missing in your current relationship and if the attraction is the culprit or if it is a red flag for larger issues...\n\nGood luck... :)",
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"body": "It seems like such a cop-out to give up after so long together. Like i'm throwing something away.\n\nI've never really broken up with anyone. Usually, in relationships, i just drift apart from the person and then we just mutually call it off.\n\nI've never broken up with someone I still love. giving up doesn't feel like the right thing to do...",
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"body": "I can relate to your problem. My ex was smart, he understood me, and he treated me like a woman should be treated. I also lost the attraction I had for him, but not the love I had. I went as far as to break up with him (after a couple rough months), so I can figure out my feelings. I went a few months with little contact from the ex and a lot of contact from other guys (flirting, dates, chatting, sexual in some cases). Now, I'm talking to my ex and seeing him again, but I still don't feel that attraction like I used to. I still care about him, but the passion seems to be gone still. Maybe I'm not allowing myself to be attracted to him again.\r\n\r\nI relate to you, but I'm sorry I can't help you. I haven't figured it out myself! At least we can talk if it gets crazy.",
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"body": "The older I get, the less attracted I am to monogamous relationships. ALL of my relationships have eventually gone the route you are on. I don't think it is anything specific that either of you have done, but rather just the general nature of long-term relationships. Sex gets stale after awhile even with all those \"spice up your sex life\" tips. If you ate the same thing every day for the rest of your life, wouldn't you get tired of it? Sex is no different. \r\n\r\nI have no doubt that you love him for all the wonderful reasons we should love our partners. But sex is a different animal entirely. You are attracted to other men because they are new. You don't know what to expect and that is exciting. It unleashes desire. \r\n\r\nI don't have an answer to give you nor do I have one for myself. If open relationships aren't your thing, then sacrifices will have to be made somewhere, whether it is in giving up your relationship or giving up desire. You can try out all this good advice people are giving you, but if nothing changes, it might be time to move on.\r\n\r\nAs a side note, someone mentioned birth control and that is a very real possibility. BC always kills my sex drive, so I refuse to take it anymore. Go off that for awhile and see if your desire comes back. I wish you lots of luck.",
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"body": ">\"Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go. And in fact, whatever people say, the state called \"being in love' usually does not last. If the old fairy-tale ending 'They lived happily ever after' is taken to mean 'They felt for the next fifty years exactly as they felt the day before they were married', then it says what probably never was nor ever would be true, and would be highly undesirable if it were. Who could bear to live in that excitement for even five years? What would become of your work, your appetite, your sleep, your friendships? But, of course, ceasing to be 'in love' need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense - love as distinct from 'being in love' - is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. They can retain this love even when each would easily, if they allowed themselves, be 'in love' with someone else. 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise. It is on this love that the engine of marriage is run: being in love was the explosion that started it.\"\n- C.S. Lewis\n\n",
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So I got strip searched on the way home from work because of a sniffer dog and it got me thinking | I don't know what I'm trying to achieve by writing this post, maybe I'm just venting and want to talk to someone about this who I don't know personally, maybe you'll tell me I deserve everything I get, I dunno, its a throwaway account anyway. I'm a kinda thin white male, I live in Australia, I make a good enough living doing internet related stuff, and I was on my way home from work, I'd just got off my train and was passing through the ticket collecting machine when a policeman with a dog asked me to step to the side. To be honest I do smoke weed sometimes but I never carry it around with me and I definitely don't sell or anything like that, but the dog could smell something. At this point I probably played all my cards wrong because I got all nervous and flustered, half because I do smoke sometimes, but also because I'm a pretty introverted guy and sometimes I don't handle conversation very well when I'm caught offguard, but I also got defensive because what I think they were doing was an invasion of privacy and I thought this whole drug war thing is stupid and I also don't want Australia to become a police state where people just accept searches like this, but I lacked the tact and preparation to convey that and probably gave them a good reason to think that maybe I was hiding something.
about 5 policemen surrounded me and took me next to the stairs, plainly visible to everyone passing through the ticket machines at peak hour. As far as I remember there was the main guy I talked to who seemed to know what he was doing and another guy to his right which seemed a bit junior to him who also said stuff from time to time, but seemed more full of pre-prepared lines as opposed to the main guy who only talked when it was necessary, the others generally remained silent apart from radio chatter. There was also a generally heavy police presence there, maybe a dozen or two officers in random corners that I slowly noticed as I looked around.
Anyway they asked for my jacket so I handed it to them, then my ipod and sunglasses. then I gave them the contents of my pockets (wallet, keys, phone, and a change purse shaped like a japanese cartoon figure). I was wearing flip-flops at the time so I took them off, the main officer looked at the soles, then I put them back on. The junior said to me something like why are you acting so nervous, we searched 3 other people today and they were all calm and talking to us all friendly, I replied "different people act different ways" he smiled like as if he won for a sec then realized I wasn't agreeing with him and that he didn't have a comeback for a retort to his pre-prepared line and looked a bit out of place. I didn't gloat over that mainly because I was too stressed and afraid at the time, I didn't gloat at all I was just really nervous and defensive. At some point they asked me to put my hands on my head and face the other direction, and in reply I asked if we were going to do a full search like this could we go somewhere private because I don't want everyone walking past looking at me and thinking that I'm a criminal, and the more junior guy said no, we'll do it here, with half a smile on his face, so I put my hands on my head and turned around and they _firmly_ patted me down. I asked if that was good enough, they said yes so I turned to face them again. At some point an officer said to me that "the dog smelt something around your crotch region" and they'd have to do a further search, I forget how they phrased that second part. At some point later I said well if we're going to do a strip search lets do it here, you haven't let me have my privacy for this search so why bother with it for the next search, I actually said that a few times phrased differently, I was fully prepared to get naked in the middle of a train station at peak hour to prove how stupid this invasion of privacy was but couldn't find the words to say it meaningfully. The main officer responded with something along the lines of "don't get smart with me boy" although I forget the actual phrase. I glanced up at the junior looking officer and he was looking a bit like he realized he might have messed up. Anyway they pulled everything out of my jacket and wallet, talked on their radios for a bit, checked that everything in my change purse was only coins, and this bit I found pretty funny, my coin purse is pretty small and also packed full of change and he spilt it everywhere and had to crawl around everywhere around picking it up in the middle of the train station and trying to fit it all back into this silly little japanese face-thing. I thought about helping him but the I thought that you don't do anything you're not told to do when you have 5 suspicious cops surrounding you. (ooh that rhymed)
Eventually they realized I had nothing in my pockets, jacket or police record (I'm pretty clean, one parking ticket that's it) so they started putting my stuff back in my pockets. Some of you will understand this, and some wont, but they were putting everything in the wrong pockets and that really annoys me, so while they were doing it I was like no that goes in that pocket, no that goes in that pocket, and they got frustrated with me and basically told me to shut up and they were going to put everything in where they want and I can sort it out later when they release me. They looked around a bit and told me they were going to take me to the toilets to do the rest of the search. The main officer waved to one of the train station staff in a booth and she opened one of the gates in the ticket machines so we could get to the toilet on the other side, three officers came into the toilet with me, the main, junior and another who didn't say anything that I remember. The junior tried to talk to me on the way about "dignity" and how they would try make sure I had as much "dignity" as possible. I really didn't care. It was a disabled toilet or a baby changeroom or something, maybe 2 meters by 3 meters, a toilet and a small bench in the corner, as the last officer was still closing the door I flung my shirt to the floor and started loosening my belt. They told me to wait, they finished closing the door, then examined my shirt, the junior told me I could put my shirt back on before I took my pants off so I could keep my "dignity" >cough< >cough<. I told him no, and dropped my pants and kicked off one foot, grabbed my dick, pulled it up for a second or two so they could see there was no drugs under it, and said is that good enough? the main officer asked me to turn around, so I turned around 360 degrees slowly, not to make trouble but because I misunderstood that he wanted me to face the other way, so he asked again, I turned so my back was facing him, then he says "bend over" which I did, then he asked me to pull my ass cheeks apart, which I did. I don't remember whether it was before or after, but he took my pants and checked the inside of them for anything. Then they told me I could dress again, so I looked down, and remember clearly taking a deep breath, looking at my pants on the floor and I said to myself, out loud, in a sarcastic tone, '... awesome'. I put everything back on, and was walking out of the room when the main officer said something about how his job was done. I said "I thought your job was to serve and protect", turned around, and walked out of the room, seconds later when we got out he says something along the lines of wait up, I would be protecting people if you turned out to be selling drugs to children, I forget his actual words but that what what I picked up from it. I replied with something along the lines of yeah whatever, how are you going to get me out back past the ticketing machines now you've left me on this side of them, he said he'd let me through, waved to the girl in the ticket booth who opened the gates, and I wandered off again on my normal way home.
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p.s. I tried to also show the stupid things I did so that you know I'm not trying to play the completely innocent card
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"body": "\nBut yeah. More random information about me: my fiance is pregnant and my daddy instincts are starting to fire up and make me think in a way I don't normally think, and for my kid I might be afraid of him doing something really stupid because of drugs, but I'm much more afraid of him living in a society where he/she can be strip searched on their way home just because of a fear of drugs. If you use drugs it doesnt mean you're a bad person. I mean if the sniffer dogs can detect rapists and murderers and people that inflict direct damage on others then go nuts, but drugs? even though people can be forced into it, its just not on the same level. Even more info about me: a few years ago I was mugged and beaten by a gang of about 20 teenagers, when that happened and I went to the police I gave them descriptions of many of them but all that happened was one cop took my statement, and the next day they told me during the middle of the day they drove past the street I was mugged in and there was noone there so they cant do much more. I mean seriously is this what its coming to? half a dozen cops and a strip search on a sniffer dog's tip that someones having a bit of fun, but if people are getting beaten and robbed, and they have solid witnesses then its not worth looking into further than a quick drive by? I know America is heading that way but Australia too?!\n\nMaybe I was a drug dealer, Maybe I was selling drugs to kids, Maybe I decided that selling drugs to kids was so important to me that I would actually shove twenty bucks worth of weed up my asshole and risk a jail sentence for it, but for all those maybe's what they did do is make an otherwise innocent man strip and deny his requests for privacy, and then even deny his requests for lack of privacy, just in case it would make the general public aware of just how stupid this whole game is.\n\nI don't want this world to go the way its going if my kid is growing up in it. I don't know what to do. maybe I'm even wrong. I don't know. I'm going to post this now or I never will, I've already spent over two and a half hours writing it lol.\n\nI just feel like.. I don't know... I might be wrong but what happened doesn't feel right...\n",
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"body": "You absolutely should have stripped right on the platform. If you are dangerous enough to need to be stripped searched then they shouldn't take any chances getting you alone in a room where you can kill the both of them. Bathrooms are dangerous places.",
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"body": "I got fucking searched, and my bag too ( which is illegal unless it is done behidn closed doors) RIGHT in the middle of the train station. Under \"terror laws\". \n\nMade me feel violated.\n\nWhat did I do wrong? I looked suspicious when looking for my train ticket.",
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"body": "You let a bunch of police officers search you for drugs in private with no witnesses or anything? Am I the only one who considers what the OP did retarded?",
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"body": "All you needed to do is saying \"I do not consent to be searched\".\n\nThey cannot search you if they don't arrest you, and to arrest you, they have to have **PROBABLE CAUSE** to believe you committed a crime.",
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"body": "I keep hearing more and more stories about Australia that reflect negatively on the country. I try to be open minded about news stories/articles since I have learned that the US does try and get the people here to believe stuff that is exaggerated. (I work with a guy in the US Guard, I don't know exact title, and he gets deployed twice a year and tells me what is really going on which is very helpful and has made me think twice about believing everything I hear.) Is Australia really getting to be, or has it always been, not a wonderful place to live because of the government/laws/police there?",
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"body": "Nice story. I probably would have done the same, except that I would have farted at least once.\n\nAlso, it's pretty stupid of them to check the train station for people who sell drugs to children. It even stupider to check these people's butts.\n\n",
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"body": "I'm from Toronto, and I've spent some time living in Dublin and Stockholm. Cops here are asses. However I found cops in both Dublin and Stockholm to be remarkably helpful and friendly. I actually ended up at a poker game in Stockholm with a friend of a friend who's a cop. I told honestly about my opinion and dealing with cops. His response was \"yea, cops in most of the world are assholes. I don't really get it. I'm a conservative over here in Sweden, but I'm a socialist, which would make me a serious leftist in the US.\" I thought that was quite interesting. I've already decided not to live in North America my whole life, and I gotta say that police attitudes make a big difference, especially when raising a family. ",
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"body": "\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.\"\n - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)\n\n------------------------------\nCOMPLAIN! FORMALLY! Make a fucking scene about it dude, they did!!!!!! So fire straight back! Make the biggest fucking scene you can!\n\nI understand the whole security blah blah blah but limits must be drawn. seriously a public toilet???????? \n\nYou owe it to not only yourself and any future generations you may spawn but the rest of us as well!",
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"body": "my question: what probable cause was there for the dog to do a nose search?\nalways flat refuse searches. make them either get a warrant, or plead probable cause. always challenge that probable cause, and always get a list of names of officers.\ni like cops, because i'm a law abiding citizen. but i really believe they should be questioned at every step. my rights will NOT be violated...\nthat sort of thing.",
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"body": "Train stations are zones where police can rape you, you basically leave any rights you may have had as soon as you pass the gates. (Normally they can't search/question you unless they arrest you first)\n\nA friend pf mine once realized he had left his wallet at home, and aving no way of contacting anyone, shouted over the barrier at the police officers if they could help him out somehow. They told him to come over the barrier, at which point they handed him a $200 fine, and when he swore at them another $100 fine for 'indecency'.\n\nAustralia *is* a police state. We have no constitutional rights.",
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"body": "Sorry man. That sounds pretty humiliating. I've had experiences with both good and bad police officers--some doing their job as they're supposed to, and others abusing their power and trying to be alpha males. It's sad because the bad ones give the good ones bad names.",
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"body": ">why are you acting so nervous, we searched 3 other people today and they were all calm and talking to us all friendly\n\nI haven't spoken with a cop in a couple years. But that one sentence just reminded me of everything I hate about interacting with them. \n\n>The junior tried to talk to me on the way about \"dignity\" and how they would try make sure I had as much \"dignity\" as possible. \n\nThat did as well. The desperate attempt to rationalize themselves at first as the \"good guys\" fighting \"bad guys\". \n\nFor what it's worth, while I don't know if that'll make any difference I applaud you for not just letting them get away with a thank you for violating you. ",
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"body": "I don't know what state you are in but in Victoria they can only strip search you with your consent or with a court order [source](http://over-the-rainbow.org/dealing-with-police.php)",
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"body": "As long as they're protecting the children, police can do anything. No one argues against that. Now actually helping the children get a decent education, housing, and insurance, no. That's their responsibility, we don't give handouts. But we must protect them from the terrorists and the drug dealers.",
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"body": "He didn't even have the decency to check your prostate for lumps. What a dick. \n \nIn all seriousness, that's terrible, man. I live in Melbourne, and it's definitely a source of concern with the recent increase in cops on the streets. It's such a fucking band-aid solution because they refuse to tackle the root of these problems.",
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"body": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpaNhfOyvAQ\n\nAssert your right not to be searched and ask if you are being forcibly detained.",
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"body": "Does Australia not have any laws in regard to unlawful search and seizure? Also, I would wonder here in the states if a sniffing dog would be enough probable cause to detain and search someone? I know they do a walk around on traffic pull overs at times and that is enough, but just walking on the street?",
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"body": "> nothing in my police record (I'm pretty clean, one parking ticket that's it) ...\n\nI love that having a parking ticket makes you *pretty* clean. As if cops could do anything to you for having a parking ticket. ",
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"body": "[Some Information](http://members.iinet.net.au/~patrick6/kiss12.html) on rights you have in relation to the police.\n\nNot many.",
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"body": "Iceland is getting there. They can stop you in your car anytime and perform a breathalyzer/drug test. ",
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My American Idol Experience | I auditioned for American Idol Season 5, with a motley crew of a dear friend and a couple acquaintances who all drove overnight from Chapel Hill, NC to Gillette Stadium, outside Boston. It was grueling. We arrived around 6am. It was windy, raining, and cold.
Either the website wasn't clear, or we were fools for not reading carefully--the audition was actually the FOLLOWING day. Day 1 was just wristband pickup and round 1 of outrageous contracts ceding our rights and personalities to Fox. We found a couch/floor combination for the night in a way I can't recall, and showed up again the next morning.
Approximately 12,000 humans and their [mostly pathetic] entourages of friends and family attended this round of auditions. As miserable and wild the experience was, I will say that I've never seen a more efficient process in my life. I was about 4,000th in line, and I sang my audition within the first 90 minutes.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. The stadium was packed, and it was raining. They made us learn "choreography" with our umbrellas to "Singing in the Rain," and we were asked to go crazy for the cameras as they panned the stadium, and to and sing our hearts out.
After these festivities, we were introduced to the audition process, which couldn't have been less glamorous. 12 low level producers would be the judges for the first round. We'd be lining up in groups of fours, and singing until we were dismissed. This round would not be televised. We would, indeed, be auditioning outside, singing in the rain. Sorry, is my bitterness coming through?
So, 89ish minutes pass, and a third of the auditioners had already cleared out to my right, several of whom had received the "golden ticket," a bright yellow piece of paper. The crowd cheered the first few times.
I sang "I'm Outta Love" by Anastasia, a little europop tune I hoped the judges would find likable and edgy and not boring and et cetera. After a verse and a chorus of not getting cut off by the "judge," a good-looking guy in his late 20s, I sang "Isn't She Lovely" for my second tune. I got a yellow ticket.
I was immediately ushered into a room and forced to sign the second contract of the process, which gave away most of my body and most of my soul to Fox. By day two they'd narrowed the 12,000 down to about 200 who'd gotten said golden tickets. We auditioned the next day for an executive producer, either Nigel or someone (?). Sorry, I don't remember the name, and I don't feel like looking it up. I sang for Nigel. He told me the judges might like me, and sent me away with another golden ticket.
Then, we sign more contracts, promising our entire souls to Fox. I remember one clause saying Fox owned anything we did between now and the end of our audition process, and that they could broadcast "anything factual or fictional" about us.
Two months go by before round 3.
Tick tock.
Round 3. I haven't mentioned the confessionals, but there were some during round 2. More in Round 3. Like, nonstop. And the producers were shameless in reminding us that American Idol is a television show first, and a talent competition second. If we wanted to be on TV, we'd have to tell a compelling story and do and say crazy shit.
While Round 1 was extraordinarily efficient, Round was was literally its polar opposite. I was about 45th in line of about 60, and I didn't audition until 5:30pm in a day that started at 7am. Yes, I sat in a cheap hotel ballroom with idiots from 7am until 5:30pm. Do you hardcore fans remember that dude who looked like a rat who thought he was Clay Aiken? He was three ahead of me for this round, and he sang all day long.
A couple thoughts on seeing the judges:
Simon Cowell's head is HUGE! HUUUUGE!!
Paula looks really freaking good!
Randy looks like a huge grumpy toad!
Ryan Seacrest is amazingly polished and never stutters! And he is teeny tiny. I sorta love him now. Aaaaaand, while several of us were "on deck" to audition--for 75 minutes--he confessed that the holdup involved Simon's veneer falling out of his mouth, and a medic being called in. It was the end of the day in the last city. When I walked into the room, I knew I had no chance. They had literally no personality and clearly wanted to go home. Paula voted me to Hollywood anyway, but two golden tickets were all I was going to get. (Plus, I was 9th of 11 in a row who got turned away.) Sigh.
One more thought before I close, and this is important to note: Those crazy people you see auditioning, who seem to crazy to be true, are completely dead true and serious. I fault their mothers who've told them they're good their whole lives. Adding to their already unnatural crazy levels, if you see them on TV, they've a) already made it to Round 3, and b) been instigated by producers all day. Of COURSE they seem inhumanly bananas once they're before the judges. | 173 | [
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"body": "The really awful singers make it in front of the judges because the producers knew they would make good tv. Is this correct?",
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"body": "I must confess, I was glassy-eyed until this:\n\n> Simon Cowell's head is HUGE! HUUUUGE!!\nPaula looks really freaking good!\nRandy looks like a huge grumpy toad!\nRyan Seacrest is amazingly polished and never stutters! And he is teeny tiny. I sorta love him now.\n\nHave some uplove.",
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"body": "> I sang for Nigel. He told me the judges might like me, and sent me away with another golden ticket. \n\nAt this stage, do they comment on your singing ability? I'm just wondering what Nigel says to the terrible singers before putting them through to the tv show.",
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"body": "That's interesting - do the contracts allow you to post said contracts on the internet? I would like to read through one.",
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"body": "God, I love reddit.\n\nWhat a great behind-the-scenes dissection of the biggest fakery in television. Thanks for sharing that story, Keepsinging.\n\n>he confessed that the holdup involved Simon's veneer falling out of his mouth, and a medic being called in.\n\nMmmmm...",
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"body": "By the way the \"Nigel\" mentioned is [Nigel Lythgoe](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0529328/) creator of *\"So You Think You Can Dance\"* (and judge on that show)",
"score": 9
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"body": "Thanks. I always wondered about the clearly awful singers who auditioned in front of the judges. That just seems cruel.",
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"body": "You seriously drove from Chapel Hill to Boston? Ugh, that drive is horrible, I use to do it every other Christmas/Thanksgiving.\n\nYou go to ECHHS or UNC?",
"score": 5
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"body": "Did you choose a song that appealed to you, moved you emotionally? Or did you choose a song that best fit your range? Or a song that you thought would most appeal to the preliminary judges?",
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"body": "Its like Willy Wonka, except the part where you sell your soul, wait, no, I think that's still Willy Wonka...",
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"body": "The crazy people...\n\nI was never trained as a singer, but I've been given compliments before by classmates in school. My mother, however, was professionally trained, and when we sang our music together in the car she called it like she saw it. She didn't care if I was her son: if I sounded off-key she'd give me a hard time. If I did well, she'd tell me. So, at least, there is one mother in the world who doesn't give her kid false hopes.\n\n* Were you disappointed when you found out you'd be going home without that third golden ticket? How long did it take to get over that?\n\n* What season was that? It sounded like an earlier one because Ellen is in now and Simon is out. Y'know?\n\n* Randy said your voice was boring. (this is the inner-perfectionist speaking here, but...) do you think you could have done better in your performance, that you could have done something better?\n\nI hope these questions don't hit a rough spot. Your \"report\" was informative and spot on, so the remaining questions I have are about you, really. Best of luck in New York!",
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"body": "I found the kid I was talking about who thought he was Clay Aiken. I wish I could tell you how annoying it was to be in a room with him all day. Look up Michael Sandecki. Here's a link to him singing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRL6UPvmS4",
"score": 4
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"body": "Had a family friend actually make it thru to the Hollywood round. Unfortunately I think between the audition and Hollywood he actually got like 2 seconds of TV time (he was in a montage of people that got accepted) He mentioned something along the lines of that when you go in front of Simon et al, they hand you a list of songs that you're supposed to sing, or something like that (it's been a few years so my memory is hazy) ",
"score": 3
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"body": "I'm sure the majority of people just audition to get on TV. Most people don't really think they'll make it, right?",
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PZ Myers - Ask Him Anything! | We are interviewing PZ Myers in the next 36 hours at [ScienceOnline2010](http://scienceonline2010.com/index.php/wiki), an annual conference on science and the Web. Get your questions in ASAP, and we will ask him the top ten questions (as voted in this thread) at the time of the interview.
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and blogs on atheism, evolution, and biology at [Pharyngula](http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/).
["PZ Myers top results on reddit"](http://www.reddit.com/r/all/search?q=pz+myers&sort=top)
**edit: 10:20am ET on 1/16/10 questions closed. Interview happening soon. Video will be up on [youtube.com/reddit](http://www.youtube.com/reddit) next week.** | 317 | [
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"body": "What should scientists be doing (that they aren't doing now, or aren't doing sufficiently) to combat anti-science theories like intelligent design?",
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"body": "How do you respond to people who claim that \"evangelical\" atheism is just as bad as evangelical Christianity?",
"score": 86
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"body": "Do your neighbors and coworkers realize that you are a web-celebrity and outspoken atheist and does it affect their daily interactions with you?",
"score": 84
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"body": "Do you think mentioning morons like Ray Comfort and Ben Stein on your blog is just giving them exposure and feeding the trolls?",
"score": 81
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"body": "What role should the university play in society? Do you have any concerns about the corporatization of research?",
"score": 71
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"body": "Do you think the current resurgence in atheism and backlash against religion is likely to maintain momentum, or will it fade in time once balance between secularism and religiosity has been restored? After all, atheism/naturalism/deism has been popular at various other points in the past.",
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"body": "I am 25 years old with a bachelors in Bioengineering. The company I work for, a well known medical device developer, is run by a gaggle of nutjob born-agains with AiG pamphlets strewn about their offices. I often flirt with the idea of returning to school for a PhD in Evolutionary Bio or at least an MS in Bioeng. My biggest fear is letting time get away from me as I cash checks and read pharyngula at work. What were you up to when you were 25? Do you have any words of advice for aspiring scientists torn between a lucrative career in the private sector and a potentially meager yet more emotionally rewarding life in academia? Do you have any plans or desire to leave Morris? Will a practice midterm be posted online?",
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"body": "Hey PZ, I've read Pharyngula for a long time, and I love how you take people to task for their pseudoscientific and anti-science viewpoints. It's good to have people like you around.\n\nI'm an atheist, and fairly outspoken about it in my everyday life. However, I frequently find myself coming across people - friends of friends, etc - that hold bizarre beliefs ranging from generic \"new age spiritualism\" to direct and firmly held beliefs in homeopathy, flimflam diets where you can't eat any grains or dairy, and more.\n\nI usually ask lighthearted probing questions to find out how deeply they hold their position and how informed they are, but when I find that they *really, really* believe this stuff, I generally back off because I know that if I continue, I'm going to strike a nerve and probably ruin the discussion. \n\nMy question to you is:\n\nWhat can I do to help combat the spread of pseudoscientific nonsense in my daily life without turning into a mad pariah and getting into fights?",
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"body": "When will the [Crocoduck Tie](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/PZ_Myers_%281%29.jpg) be available to the public?",
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"body": "Professor Myers,\n\nI hope you don't find this question trivial. And, if you do, I hope you take the time to answer it anyway. Here we go: Please explain the extent of your weekly beard maintenance. ",
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"body": "Hi PZ. I'm an Arab atheist. Unlike the US or Europe, there's a general shift towards more religiosity here in the middle east. Science and critical thinking is taking the backseat and denial of evolution is at all time high.\n\nDo you think it's more efficient at this stage to concentrate on reforming religion or on confronting it head-on?\n\nThanks.",
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"body": "What do you see as the future of religion? Will science and religion one day be reconciled, or will it fade out of existence like the belief in a flat earth?",
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"body": "The internet not only has loads of great science and rationalism sources, but also seemingly endless piles of pseudoscience and woo. Do you think that in the long run, the internet will help increase or decrease the acceptance of science and rationalism?",
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"body": "We've all heard bad arguments for intelligent design. In your experience, what has been one of the *best*, most rational arguments in favor of intelligent design you've ever heard?",
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"body": "There is discussion about the possibility of completely duplicating the human brain in circuits, processors, and electronic data storage. If that technology becomes possible in your lifetime, would you do that as a kind of immortality? Why or why not?",
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"body": "We are always hearing the bad news about the bad news in science education: Intelligent Design, the U.S. falling behind other countries in science and math? Any good news?",
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"body": "Would you be in favor of establishing a national board led by serious scientists to create a national curriculum on scientific topics, such as evolution, which are being abused by anti-intellectual laws at the state level?",
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"body": "OK. Here is a question that has been bothering me for awhile. \r\n\r\nWhat to you think of the moderate christian or your average theist/deist that never, ever criticize the extreme religious nuts when they say hateful and biggoted things in the name of religion.\r\n\r\nLike that dried up little turd pat robertson.\r\n\r\nThey seem to leave it to us atheist to clean up their own mess when the first people you should hear speaking out against these idiots are moderate christians!!\r\n\r\nAnd then, when we do say things like, Pat Robertson is a fucktard, the moderate christians have the nerve to call us militant! MF´ers!!!",
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"body": "I know that you are not a psychologist, or a therapist, but in your experience as a teacher of scientific logic and reason, what is the driving force behind why people are romanced by religion, or any mythological ideas on the progression of the human race? Is it parental ideas that are instilled in the young? And if that is true, why is that not the reason why children deviate to completely different political affiliations when they get older, but hold dear to religion/religious practice?",
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"body": "Do you think it's actually possible to have a scientifically minded majority in a Liberal society? Or will there always be a large segment of the population who live in and enjoy the ignorance of dogma? \"Is there hope for us without forcing people into it?\" Would be the gist of it. ",
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"body": "Many religious people have a specific kind of confirmation bias where everything \"good\" in their lives is attributed to God. I see this especially in many of my friends who came to God from an \"addiction\". They are convinced that their \"solution\" is correct because it worked for them, and they are unwilling to explore other avenues or perspectives on \"better solutions\". They surround themselves with a tight social circle of confirming friends who bolster their beliefs via testimony, prayer, and other means. They cannot see any problem with this approach, even when educated about confirmation bias, etc.\n\nHow might we dispel this kind of critical thinking bias?",
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"body": "Your name has been associated with what the media has dubbed the \"New Atheists.\" One of the ironies of that name is that much of the most visible atheist literature of the last decade belongs to a tradition that stretches back to at least the 18th century, and save for some updated science and forays (like yours) into online media, the arguments found in more recent books wouldn't seem out of place, either in tone or content, in a book like d'Holbach's *Good Sense*. Do you foresee the literature of atheist criticism and commentary taking any new directions in the near future, or has it already explored the full extent of what the topic will allow?",
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"body": "How can you continue to deny the existence of God, despite the fact that the banana is perfectly designed?",
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"body": "Do you think the study of the brain (and the development of a mechanistic understanding of the mind) will eventually eclipse evolution as _the_ thing theists will rail against?",
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"body": "In general terms, what is your goal by being such an outspoken atheist? Are you primarily concerned with the political effect of religion, are you attempting to shift social mores or do you have some other goal? In other words, besides pointing out the error of theist views, what's the point of your promotion of atheism?",
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"body": "Both evolution and atheism seem to be where the front line battles take place in rationality vs. anti-intellectualism and anti-science in our society. Do you see other areas where rationality could gain ground?",
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"body": "I have seen a number of arguments against the utility of religion from Richard Dawkins. WhileRichard Dawkins does an excellent job of arguing against the *truth* of religion, he's a lot more hand-wavy when it comes to saying that religion is detrimental to human society. Given the fact that religion has shown up in a very wide range of societies -- that is, it was independently developed many times over -- it seems to me that there is a not uncompelling argument that it has value to a society's survival of some sort. It seems to me that he simply asserts -- without much basis for this -- that it is a quirk, a failing of the human mind, and that it's actually a detriment.\n\nWould you argue that religion is a harmful attribute of society? If so, could you provide the argument?\n\nThanks.",
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"body": "In the tagline for Pharyngula, you profess that you are a \"godless liberal\" and you are notably outspoken about your political views, as are several other prominent atheists.\r\nOutside the atheist community there seems to be a perception that most atheists are liberal.\r\n\r\nHow accurate do you think this perception is, does the association help or harm the atheist movement, and do you think think that atheism and politics necessarily go hand-in-hand? \r\n\r\nOn a side note, are conservative atheists embraced or shunned in the atheist community, or is this a non-issue?",
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"body": "To what extent, if at all, do you feel having faith in anything is hardwired into people's brains rather than a learned behavior?",
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"body": "Is there room, in our increasingly polarized world, to get the \"left\" more involved in criticizing Islam even though it might offend Muslims? Criticism of Islam seems to be a difficult balance act for many \"liberal\" or left leaning politicians. Why do you think this is, and what can we do to not let the \"right\" dictate Islamic criticism?\n\n(PS: Please let me know of any spelling mistakes, thanks!)\n\nedit: corrected errors pointed out by DanCorb, thanks :)",
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"body": "Being that I do not share your gift for words and rhetoric. I'm forced into a passive stance of hoping that in the generations to come, Atheist/Secularist numbers will increase by default from older ideas dying out. Would you agree with this? How long do you think this Creation–Evolution controversy is going to last?",
"score": 3
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"body": "Do you think there is any way in which the Cowbell can be brought into Scientific inquiry more often?",
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"body": "What explains America's particularly prevalent religiousity compared with other developed Western European nations, such as France?\n\nI can't think of any other major developed nation which has a major national party with considerable power which is so cozy with religious fundamentalists, nor can I think of another major developed nation with such a strong fundamentalist movement.",
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"body": "As a child I was affected by a great degree by excellent children shows such as the Magic School Bus and Bill Nye The Science Guy. I am curious what media you encountered as a child that had an effect on you as the previously mentioned shows did on those of a generation younger than you.\n\nThanks",
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"body": "As a long time reader of your blog, I know that you often receive pictures of [squid porn](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&esrch=FT1&q=site:scienceblogs.com+squid+porn&aq=f&oq=&aqi=). What is the most exquisite one that you have come across?",
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Reddit guys: How many of you sit on your wallet all day? | For the guys:
Do you leave your wallet in your back pocket, front pocket, or in no pocket during the day? This especially goes out to the folks who have desk or sitting jobs. | 150 | [
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"body": "I don't understand that, I've always carried my wallet in the front pocket. Harder to steal, more readily accessible, and you don't have to sit on it.",
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"body": "Here's my horror story...\nIn college, I delivered pizza three days a week, ten hours a day. I wore my wallet in my back left pocket all the time. A few months in, I started to get a little uncomfortable on my left butt cheek. I moved my wallet to my right back pocket but the discomfort was still there. It would come and go until one morning I woke up and noticed a little zit like thing on my cheek where the pain was coming from. I figured it would go away on its own, but no more than two days later I found it difficult to walk. I finally gave in and went down to a local Emergicare type place.\n\nTurns out my excessive periods of sitting on my wallet had caused a single ingrown hair on my butt which became infected. The infection started to burrow its way DEEPER into my butt cheek. By the time the doctors checked it out, there was a small abscess that needed immediate surgery. They ended up having to lance the abscess and literally scoop out six inches deep worth of infection. It was by far one of the most miserable and painful experiences in my life. What's worse is that they shoved about two feet of gauze into the hole where the infection was and left it there to \"soak up\" any remaining infection - for a week. Having to go back to the doctor and have him pull that out a week later was just as miserable as them digging into my cheek to begin with. A harrowing experience indeed.\n\nTL;DR - I wore my wallet in my back pocket for too long, got an ingrown hair infection and a world of pain.",
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"body": "I keep it in my back pocket. I sometimes have to put stuff like napkins under the other butt cheek to balance myself out.",
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"body": "I do. That way I know instantly if I left my wallet somewhere, because it suddenly feels like I’m missing a chunk from my ass.",
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"body": "I sit on mine all day. \n\nI understand how it can be a burden for a lot of people and contribute to ass/back pain. But for me, if I start to notice it too much, that just means I need to take a bunch of shit out of my wallet. You really don't need every business card anyone has ever handed you, receipts, various scraps of paper, etc. I just need my health insurance cards, driver's license, debit cards, and maybe a little cash or a gift card.\n\nI actually feel a little 'off' when I don't have it in my back pocket.",
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"body": "Depends on my wallet. Currently all my cards are being kept in an empty Birth Control container. Everytime I pull it out I'm always getting weird looks from people. It's bad ass.",
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"body": "I used to sit on my wallet at work until my ass started hurting. Now I just leave it on my desk. Probably shouldn't do that.",
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"body": "I sit for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. I have my wallet in my back pocket, but my weight does not go on it. Also, my chair is really cushioned so there would be no obvious bump from the wallet.",
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"body": "[All-Ett: The World's Thinnest Wallet](http://www.all-ett.com/leather.asp?cat=leather&catname=Leather%20Wallets) - chiropractor recommended. I'm planning to get one soon.",
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"body": "Never. Wallet stays in laptop bag all day, next to my desk. Coat pocket in the winter, cargo pants side pocket in the summer. Fanny pack or shoulder bag for vacation/hiking/camping. Otherwise, short visits to the back pocket. [Sciatica](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciatica).",
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"body": "It's beyond me why anyone would sit on their wallet all day. Would you walk around all day with a 2 inch wedge in 1 shoe and not the other?",
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"body": "I use two wallets. One in the left back pocket and one in the right back pocket. This evens me out. One unforseen side benefit, is that it makes me taller at the dinner table, thus giving me a longer reach for accessing the ingestibles.",
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"body": "I tend to keep my wallet in my back pocket or my jacket pocket. But, if I'm sitting down - I'll take it out and put it into my desk / backpack. I hate sitting on my wallet all day.",
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"body": "How do men only carry a wallet? I have a big bag in which I put my wallet, book, shirt for the second job, lunch, and various other accoutrements. How do men get by with only a wallet? Where do you keep all of your other important stuff. What do you do with your cell phone and keys, or your iPod, or your camera? ",
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"body": "My work pants have cargo-type pockets on the sides. Left leg pocket is for my wallet, right leg pocket is for my phone. I drive a truck so I sit down for extended periods of time, and I'd definitely develop back problems if I kept it in my back pocket. I also don't want to keep the stuff in my front pockets because it would be too constricting, as my job is rather active when I'm not sitting down.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, the cargo-pockets close with velcro flaps so there's no risk of losing anything, and keep it all nice and out of the way without being hard to reach.",
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"body": "And how many of those who do jiggled your butt to sit a little more comfortably after realizing your butt was hurting? ",
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"body": "I'm a chick. But I keep my wallet in my back pocket. Front pockets are reserved for iPod and cell phone.",
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"body": "I used to sit on mine all day until I kept having terrible back pain. My doctor told me sitting on it was causing my back problems, so I moved it to my front pocket. Back problems have gone away but I still panic for a split second when I feel my back pocket and nothing is there.",
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LHC? | I'm really excited by the prospects of understanding the creation of our universe down to the very second of its birth; even though I can scarcely understand the utterly complex science behind it.
The experiments LHC are simply mind-blowing to a simpleton like me but it also got me thinking. What would the ramifications be should they not discover the theorised Higgs boson?
Either way, I reckon what ever they find, or don't find at the LHC will change physics and science as a whole. What kind of changes would these be, should the Higgs not be found. Or even worse, proven to not exist.
By the way, sorry if this question sounds ridiculously stupid.
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Edit: Sorry I can't respond to each of you at the moment, as I would like to. Unfortunately work has the better of my time at the moment. Regardless, there are some truly thought inspiring comments as well as the usual Reddit 'humour' and bigotry. Great stuff guys! Keep them coming!
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"body": "[This article](http://www.slate.com/id/2167563/pagenum/all/) was posted a while back. \n\n>In fact, finding the \"just right\" Higgs would be bad news all around. Surely the European Union wants more for its $8 billion than a single particle. But more importantly, it would provide the final proof of the standard model, which happens to be clunky, boring, and infuriatingly silent on the Big Questions that the final theory of physics was supposed to answer. Questions like: Why is there something, rather than nothing? And where does gravity fit in? If the standard model turns out to be a complete description of particle behavior, as the discovery of the Higgs would suggest, these questions may never be answered.\n\n>That's why particle physicists, and the EU member states that have spent Nepal's annual GDP to build this accelerator, are hoping that no one, in Chicago or Switzerland, finds the Higgs. The future of high-energy physics lies with the small chance that the standard model is wrong, and something exotic happens at LHC energies. Something, I hope, that will help us understand the why questions that the standard model leaves wide open.\n\nIt doesn't directly answer your question, but if the Higgs doesn't exist, it seems that physics will be more interesting.",
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"body": "Ahh, the Swiss...\n\nNever in a hurry. Always reeelaaaxed. They also wear very trendy glasses.\n\nBeautiful people, the Swiss.",
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"body": "I think they'd just shrug, go 'Fuck it.' and try to hit pigeons with the proton stream.\n\nhttp://xkcd.com/401/",
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"body": "There are other theories out there that don't need a Higgs. And there are theories with multiple Higgs particles\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson\n\nSo LHC will tell us which may be better to pursue.\n\n",
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Ok, supplements: I might have gone a bit crazy in the shop this time.. Your opinion on supplements | So this is what i bought for my creatin phase:
Creavitargo, 2kilos (with multipower creatin capsules if i run out, which with 2 kilos will be quite hard),
Glutamin+BCAA capsules,
Ribose powder,
2 types of protein one post workout, one morning/evening (scitec and multipower)
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"body": "Fix your diet. If you are eating well you do not need supplements in general. I know of exceptions, but they are people who need to get their supplement in the form of a shot because their digestive system isn't processing whatever correctly, not because it isn't in their food.",
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"body": "Staples: \nProtein powder (Whey, casein). \nCreatin. \nSome kind of PWO drink (poor man's version: gatorade and whey). \nFish oil. \nMultivitamin. \n \nWhen I have money to burn: \nBCAAs. \nSURGE + MetabolicDrive + Spike + PowerDrive (from Biotest. Yes, I'm a Biotest whore.). \nZMA + Melatonin. \nSome type of \"greens\" supplement.",
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"body": "jeeeeze, why not just get this needle where you stick it in your thigh... and 2 days later you add 50 lbs to your bench.\r\n\r\nMy opinion is the only supplement you should consider is a protein powder. After a workout, you need to immediately replenish your sugars, and protein ( most food protein takes over an hour to digest ) where as a protein shake allows immediate abosorbtion. \r\n\r\nDepending on what your goal is, i wouldnt get carried away with too many supplements... and it's generally not a great idea to ingest more pound for pound supplements than actual food!\r\n\r\nthe amount of $ you dropped on supplements could be wisely invested in consulting a Sports Nutritionist.... Give a man a fish... or Teach a man to fish",
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Has anyone else read the book The Art of Happiness by HH The Dalai Lama? | It was suggested to me very highly by a fellow atheist at work, and I have to say I was shocked. The DL is probably the one religious leader that actually promotes reason, and all around common sense above the word of any God. If you haven't picked it up, I highly recommend it. | 5 | [
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"body": "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.\n~ Buddha",
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TIL that the origin of the terms 'upper case' and 'lower case' are from the location of the blocks that compositors used. | It made sense to sort them into two different physical boxes called cases, and since non-capital letters are used more frequently than capital letters, they were kept in the closer, or 'lower' case. [From 'The Geek Atlas'](http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523213/) | 125 | [
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"body": "Do you know where I learned this? The reading comprehension section of the SAT.\n\nThey had some great and interesting historical and natural stories there, and often I would lose sight of the goal (answering those darn questions) and just end up enjoying the passage. \n\nI think the same passage also explained the origin of the expression, \"mind your p's and q's.\" Basically, since printing requires a mirrored template (i.e. to print b, you would need the mirror version, which looks like a d), it got pretty confusing whether you were supposed to use the q block (which looked like a p) or the p block (which looked like a q). As a side note, why didn't they ever say, mind your b's and d's?",
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"body": "I was an old time set type printer last summer and I can verify this(I worked on an 1887 Chandler & Price platen press). People were always blown away when they heard it, especially since I could open the cases and show them.",
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"body": "that leads to the question of why to have upper and lower case letters? it seems like having two almost completely different alphabets for one language is unnecessary. only a few letters even look like their upper case version.",
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Just got my first Mac. Any advice/tips for a beginner? | I love pretty much anything having to do with computers. I grew up around PC lovers and a lot of Mac trash talk. Secretly I've always thought they seemed cool and wanted to give them a try. However finances kept that out of reach until recently.
My refurbished macbook air just arrived and I was curious if anyone had some advice to help make sure I get the most out of my purchase/experience.
I've been looking at a program called CoolBook because I'm big into undervolting my laptops for better battery life. Anyone used this?
EDIT: This is already my favorite computer in the house. Can't believe I waited this long to give mac's a shot. Thanks for all your information guys, it's been a great help! | 37 | [
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"body": "Learn the keyboard shortcuts. *Everything* has a keyboard shortcut.\n\nLearn the Terminal. OS X is the best operating system in the world for end users, but it's also the best environment to learn \\*nix-like OS's which are only going to become more common on servers. Almost everything I learned about web servers, the bash shell, scripting, automation, basically everything that makes me highly employable, I learned from seeing just how much my Macs can do (most people who talk to me about my skills and interests first are *shocked* to later find out I'm a \"Mac guy,\" since Macs are the \"easy\" computers).\n\nAlso, wait till you get very comfortable where everything is and how it all works together, then learn Quicksilver. You will never want to interact with a computer any other way ever again.\n\nEdited to fix formatting.",
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"body": "Dont worry about Quicksilver unless you have aspergers. Spotlight works just as good if not better as an app launcher now. Real beginners dont need to worry about a buggy complex program that has negligible value if you havent been using it since 10.3.\n\n\nLearn to use Expose. Learn to use spaces maybe. Get used to programs not closing when you close the window. Command Q to really close a program. Learn to love that program menus are always in the same place. OSX shows free memory differently than windows so dont freak out when you look at the activity window. \n\nThat green button? Dont use it. Also get used to not maximizing windows. OSX handles things differently than windows. In windows you typically only concentrate on one window/program at a time. OSX is designed for you to use multiple windows at a time. \n\nAutomator is really fun, but dont worry about it yet. \n\nUmmmm.... lets see... what else....\n\nExpose shortcuts, press the space bar in expose to quicklook a window. tab will switch between programs in expose. Speaking of quicklook its awesome. ",
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"body": "Get used to not closing windows, and not having maximised or minimised windows. Make good use of Expose, and rearranging windows without activating them (Cmd+drag). You'll end up getting much better use of the screen real-estate.",
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"body": "I use little snitch a lot. I like knowing when and where apps are dialing out to the internet. It is super easy to set up rules to deny their ability to dial out forever. Sick of being constantly reminded that some app has a new version, just isolate it. ",
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"body": "Get [Adium](http://adium.im), it's a great multi-protocol IM client.\n\nI agree with everyone who's mentioned keyboard shortcuts. Probably the ones I use most are Command-tab, which switches apps, and command-`, which switches between open windows in a single app. (That's command + the key to the left of the 1)\n\nCheck out Hot corners and Spaces (probably in conjunction) as well.",
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"body": "As stupid as this sounds, make sure you go to the settings panel and activate the proper trackpad settings. You can't 'right-click' by default. My cousin used hers for months before I showed her that she could do that.",
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"body": "If you spend much time at all typing, take the time to learn and get used to OS X's Emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. These allow you to move around very quickly in text fields *without your hands leaving the home row* (even to hit arrow keys) and, once you get used to it, your text editing speed will go up about 50% (this is not necessarily words per minute, but the time spent moving around in text files).\n\nHere's the basic ones to get you started:\n\n* **Ctrl-f/Ctrl-b**: forward and back a character; similar to right and left arrows, respectively\n* **Ctrl-n/Ctrl-p**: next and previous line; similar to down and up arrows, respectively\n* **Ctrl-Option-f/Ctrl-Option-b**: forward and back a *word*; useful for getting around fast although I have changed this on my computer to just Option-f/Option-b\n* **Ctrl-a/Ctrl-e**: beginning/end of current line (or paragraph, really); works like Home/End on Windows\n* **Ctrl-k/Ctrl-y**: Ctrl-k is \"kill;\" it deletes everything to the right of the cursor on the current line/paragraph. If you're at the beginning of an empty line, it removes that line. So to delete several lines of, say, code, go to your line, hit Ctrl-a, then hit Ctrl-k a bunch until you've deleted everything you want to.\n\n Now, Ctrl-y is even cooler. Text you kill isn't just gone, it goes into a special clipboard (separate from the one you access with Cmd-C,X,V) that is specific to whatever application you're editing text in. When you delete several lines in sequence, the *all* go into this clipboard. So you can use the above procedure to quickly get a bunch of text into this clipboard, then quickly paste it back in another place with Ctrl-y. For a ton of situations this is *infinitely* faster than \"select with mouse, Cmd-X, click where I want to paste, Cmd-V.\"",
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"body": "It is not Windows, start fresh with how you look at a computer and an operating system.\n\nYou will not be *required* to do any maintenance. No defrags, no spyware scans, no virus scans, nothing. Of course if you want to do these things you can but they are not required.\n\nSet up time machine for automatic backups. Time Machine works great over your wireless network if you have a HDD attached to it. Do the first Time Machine backup over ethernet if you can because this will save a lot of time.\n\nWhen you have finished computing you can just shut the lid and let it sleep, this works beautifully on the Mac and with OS X.\n\nEnjoy.\n\n",
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"body": "Tip: you can use spotlight (CMD+Spacebar) as a calcuator, just enter any calcuation and it'll be displayed as the search result just below the box.\r\n",
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"body": "I've with catfive on the \"learn the keyboard shortcuts\" advice. There is a damn shortcut for everything, and it will make your mac life much easier. Also know that nearly everything can be command-clicked, or option-clicked to bring up a completely different set of menus or data (that are often *different* than right-clicking - in fact, right clicking is not that useful in OS X itself, just in individual applications). So learn all of the alternate behaviors for command/option clicking.\n\nAlso realize that OS X hides most of it's power. Unlike the PC world, it is inevitable that you will have to use the terminal to do more powerful tasks, or set some custom options for apps. This could be anything from turning down the start-up volume, to 'always display tabs' in Safari. So if you think *something* should be an option, but you don't find it in a preferences pane somewhere, chances are it **is** an option, but you have to find a Terminal command to set it. Google is your best friend in these situations.\n\nRegarding coolbook, et al, if you have Apple Care, I'd suggest just using the MacBook to it's full potential. Of course for saving battery life it might come in handy, but turning down the screen brightness would probably be enough.\n\nI also think that Spotlight is just fine, and that quicksilver is really not necessary these days.\n\nSince you are new to the mac, there are some apps that I found were very non-pc like, and helped me do computing in a more fun way than i had on my PC. It also helped me get the full mac experience of usability. Here is a short list of apps i use (google these, they are very popular):\n\nGrowl (traybar icon that displays messages from other programs. very useful)\n\nAdium (instant messaging)\n\nTransmission (bitorrent client)\n\nPixelmator (alternative to photoshop)\n\nGarageSale (ebay client)\n\nPicturesque (bulk editor that helps makes lovely images for web galleries, etc.)\n\nIf you hate safari, Google Chrome for mac is good, or Camino.\n\nLogic and Final Cut (music creation and video editing)\n\nScreenflow (screencasting)\n\nIf you are into usenet: Unison/UnrarX/Split & Concat/MacPar Deluxe\n\nAlso, the Finder can be kind of shitty for actually working with files, and the search box is worthless for places that aren't 100% indexed by spotlight. So therefore, the best app in the world is PathFinder.\n\nThere are more, but those I use nearly daily. Happy computing!\n\n",
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"body": "I use coolbook, undervolting/underclocking is essential for notebooks. This single app keeps my macbook a hell of a lot cooler than without. Make sure your Macbook Air is support and don't be afraid to send the developer an email, he's pretty good at getting back to you quickly.\n\nIf you want to remove the biggest bottle neck in that Mac is to switch to an SSD, specifically the Intel X25M G2. ",
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"body": "Get used to not shutting it down - suspend on the mac works very well. I only reboot every few months when a system patch comes out that requires it.\n\nExpose is awesome on a laptop - especially on the smaller ones. It makes the lower resolution very usable. If you have the newer trackpad, it is mapped to a gesture and is very slick.\n\nIf you're tempted to install boot camp right away, don't. I find that I don't use windows enough to justify the partition.",
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"body": "I use [GimmeSomeTune](http://www.eternalstorms.at/gimmesometune/GimmeSomeTune/GimmeSomeTune.html) for finding my missing album art/lyrics when i'm playing music from iTunes. Also [Caffeine](http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/) for when i'm watching videos or reading long posts or articles on the internet. Keeps your backlight on.\n\nEDIT: for got all about [AppTrap](http://onnati.net/apptrap/). When you drag things to the trash to uninstall them it finds files/folders associated with that app so they get deleted along with the app. Keeps things a little cleaner.",
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Where do web developers look for work? | Hello Reddit,
I work for a small creative agency, based in London. We're currently looking to draft a new permanent web developer, most probably a LAMP dev'r with a flexible mindset and an aptitude for making stuff work.
No, no I'm not asking for CVs, I'm just wondering where developers look for work. Our usual port for call for short-term contracts would be a recruitment agency; though in this instance we're reluctant to fork out the 15% extra for what is often a less-than-useful service.
What resources to dev'rs look at when attempting to find employment. Publications, websites? I'm sure that this post reads as though it was written by a child, but rest assured that any information offered will go to a good home.
***edit...***
*I'm looking for a resource from which to pull suitable candidates for a permanent position, rather than something from which to tap a stream of freelancers. To two aren't mutually exclusive, no, but I thought I'd clarify that I'm keen to hunt down one right person for one job in the near future, rather than have my request sound too vague.* | 8 | [
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"body": "as a web developer always looking for projects/part-time/contract work I would appreciate it if you post here your findings.",
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Where is your [NON-Obvious] Erogenous Zone? | Where **on your body** do you have an erogenous zone that is NOT on the oh-so-obvious genitalia?
My shoulder. Bite hard. I'm yours.
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"body": "This is strange, but if a man fixes my necklace for me, when the backing slides towards the front, it turns me on. \r\n\r\nSometimes a genuine hug will do it for me, too. ",
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"body": "My neck. The slightest touch makes me moan. But then again my whole body is one as long as you aren't tickling me. ",
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"body": "My butt cheeks. I could have just orgasmed 30 seconds ago and if she rubs my butt cheeks my dick gets hard like steel. If I am getting head and she reaches around to rub my ass she's gonna get a throatfull of jizz.\n\n*edited to make it more specific for vodkarox",
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"body": "The bottom of my feet. I am really sensitive there, but I can get off just by having someone run their fingers along my skin.",
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"body": "Okay, this is going to sound weird, but i love to have fingernails dragged lightly up and down the inside of my forearm (wrist to elbow). That is quite pleasant.",
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"body": "Mine is the webbing inbetween my fingers... when I hold hands with someone I love to squeeze and get that tingle from it, turns me on so good! ",
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"body": "Either my hands or my hair. Gentle touching of the hair is a great one, and rubbing of the hands as a massage or whatever is pretty nice.",
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"body": "My head, (no not THAT one, specifically the Northern iteration). Scratch it, rub my hair. Go to town, and I'm a happy man.",
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"body": "My ex girlfriend had a major operation on her spine and as a result lost all sensation in parts of her back and her side. \nShe did, however, gain an incredibly sensitive spot just along the edge of her shoulder blade.\n\nIt was like a start button for sex. ;D\n\nEDIT: IT DIDN'T MAKES SENSE BEFORE D:",
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"body": "For me it's my hand... there's a certain way my wife can touch it and stroke it with her fingers that will set me off everytime she does it.",
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"body": "My eyes. As in, I wanna SEE you makin me a damn sandwich...no not turkey stupid bitch!! Put some ham on that shit! Yeah, now that gets me going.",
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"body": "Triceps.\n\nMy GF has a serious ear/neck thing. I've gotten her off before with that alone. Sometimes a breath on her neck literally puts her on the floor.",
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"body": "There's a bundle of nerves at the base of the spine on ever guy that feels amazing when rubbed right.\n\nThose of you with girlfriends who don't know this, let them know. It's amazing foreplay.",
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"body": "my head, and my back. I love it when a girl run her hand through my hair, and when she rubs my back.",
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What is the maximum sustainable female to male ratio and what would be the effects on society with such a different ratio? | 10:1? 100:1?
I was just reading the wikipedia [article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-gender_world) on single gendered world and it got me thinking about this subject. It seems that Sci-Fi with a gender theme either has a giant female only utopia or a male only shit-storm of war and conflict.
I want to see a story about a world where women simply outnumber men by say 5 to 1. Would women control everything because they are now a solid majority or would men somehow rule things because of the laws of harem dynamics?
Most importantly, would the average redditor finally get some in this world? Or would women be more inclined to collect around a single man and share him with other women while offering themselves exclusively to their own man?
**Edit**: I found that sliders episode you guys were talking about: http://www.hulu.com/watch/71965/sliders-love-gods | 19 | [
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"body": "\"What do you mean by sustainable is an important question?\", I suppose. Since the selective process introduced by sperm seems to produce roughly an equal number of males and females, any society that was not also balanced would rebalance within a generation unless something was done to the male children.\n\nAlternatively, in a developed world there might be controls introduced that made sure only X-chromosome-bearing sperm survived, or were produced by men, or something like that, and then I supposed as long as men were available to fertilize women then it could be anywhere from 10% to .001% male society depending on the level of technology involved.\n\nThis is a really interesting theme for me as well; I've been kicking around the idea in a story where the the male to female ratio is about 1:4. The reasoning behind this is that all conception is ex-utero, and while it's possible to take the genetic material from an egg to fertilize another egg (XX), it's not possible to do the same with males with any reasonable success (YY). The result is regendering, with a male gender, a female gender, and a femme gender, with all three combinations common, one of each (male, femme, female) common, group marriages common, and devoted homosexuality (femme-femme, male-male, female-female) not uncommon but only capable of genetic reproduction in where two X's are involved. This gender shift is only part of the background of the story, so it's not about the society being some kind of feminist utopia. However, high-ranking males in administrative positions are very uncommon, and courtship between men and women is a bit more balanced do to the lower supply of males offsetting their natural urges toward promiscuity. Wars, corporate takeovers, and the like are all still part of society, but they may have a different flavor to them. Proper society is much more courtly, where everyone maintains a face of studiously polite cordiality, but under-the-table dealings and false fronts are the norm.\n\nAdditionally, one of the largest supply of men comes from military programs where they have intentionally been bred to be small and lean to allow them to fit in smaller cockpits and suits, so in the regular world it's more common for men to be slightly shorter and less muscular than women.\n\nI could be totally off my rocker, but that seemed like a reasonably sustainable culture given the right technology.",
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"body": "Not totally related, but a good single-gendered wolrd novel is Ursula K. Leguin's [The Left Hand of Darkness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_hand_of_darkness). It's about a world where everyone is one gender, but not all-male or all-female. At a certain time of the year, they turn into a male or female, then turn back to androgynous afterward. Each year they can turn into male or female; it's random.\r\n\r\nIt's a really good book if you haven't read it. Makes you think about gender roles and how you deal with someone who isn't a male or female, but sometimes is one or the other.",
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"body": "If women were to gradually outnumber men, I doubt very much anything would be different; let alone a utopia. If men were to disappear, than so would gender roles(or at least they would begin to change dramatically); and women would turn to war and conflict just like men have in the past(and this is already historically true). Apathy, fear, prejudice, conflict, affiliation are all universal human traits that can lead to war/conflict and gender has absolutely nothing to do with overcoming these instincts.\n\nI also imagine that if men were to become a rare commodity than there would be far more lesbianism, both to compensate for the lack men to mate with and as the result of a lack of male presence throughout their lives and development.\n\n",
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"body": "Well, give the Y chromosome a bit longer to continue its slow but [inevitable deterioration](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4225769), and you'll eventually be able to find out by observation.",
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"body": "Lois McMaster Bujold's novel *Ethan of Athos* posits an all-male society where reproduction in through mechanical uterine replicators.",
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"body": "First, establishing facts: \n\nIn developed countries, replacement rate is about 2.1 children/\"couple\". A man is fertile from puberty on, but for the sake of argument, let's say it's from the age of 15 to 60 (45 years). The chance of pregnancy from a single sexual encounter is 3-5%. So, if a guy has sex with a girl once a day for a month, in a statistically perfect world, she would get pregnant.\n\nIn this scenario, a guy could have 540 children in his life. Unless my sleep-deprived brain is totally wrong, this means you only need 1 man for every 257ish (541/2.1) women. \n\nAnd that's just if you \"harvest\" the men once per day. Depending on the guy and his diet, I'm sure the ratio could be much much more.",
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"body": "Almost any ratio is sustainable, the real question is why is the ratio this way and how does it sustain itself. \n\nIs this a near-future of our society where suddenly the ratio is skewed?\n\nIf so, is it a disease that causes this, or is it intentional through genetic selection.\n\nOr, is this a species of evolved being who naturally have a high female-to-male ratio?\n\nEven within scenario, how skewed of a ratio will affect this. \n\nA 2-1 ratio might have enough men to maintain or establish power and while it may seem like every man would have 2 potential wives, if multiple marriages are legal, they would probably try to have more wives than 2, with Harem size as the symbol of their status. So you might have a world where poor men have few options with women, while others have 2,3,4,10 as their wealth and power grew.\n\nOf course it could be the opposite, especially at higher 4-1 or 10-1 ratios, with the women competing for status to attract the few men available, with most men being kept at home. There could also be a change to more arranged marriages with the powerful women paying large dowries to families that have produced male children.\n\nAt very high ratios, like the 100-1 ratio, for a population to be sustainable in a human 1 child per pregnancy fashion, each male would have to sire children with 100 women to keep the population going. While this could be a male at the center of a hive-like domain, the man living in luxury served by women who seek favor to become chosen to mate with, it could also lead to a form of male servitude, with one woman of power owning a man(or being the mother of) and controlling which women have access to him. They not only have the biological need to procreate (otherwise population numbers would have quickly dwindled), but also the potential wealth that would come from having a male child. This could easily include black-market sperm, and other laws and practices.\n\nWith Sci-fi, the answer is not necessarily how **would** this work out, but how **could** this work out. Splitting the atom led to both nuclear powered paradises and desolate radioactive wastelands in Sci-fi. The possibilities are only as endless as your imagination(and/or your agenda).",
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"body": "It's decades since I read [Five to Twelve](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Twelve-Coronet-Books-Edmund-Cooper/dp/0340109041) by Edmund Cooper, but at least it directly answers the question about what ratio ...",
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"body": "I'd imagine as the ratio of women to men increased the value of males would make their role as impregnators increasingly supersede any other sort of societal function. Risky activities would be discouraged for men and the social liberties they would enjoy would be marginal. There was an episode of Sliders that dealt with this issue a plague had wiped out the men making them a highly prized commodity. \n\nThere are other factors to consider in this equation however, the optimal population size for the society and the level of medical advancement. In the Forever War, overpopulation at one point in earth's history creates a situation where homosexuality is made obligatory and people are conditioned to avoid hetero relationships to cut down on reproduction. In such a society there might not be any effect on gender ratios save perhaps mild discrimination.\n\n An advanced society such as Banks' the Culture could support gender ratios of theoretically any amount as sexuality and reproduction is not tied to the sex a person is born with. In such an advanced society male and female becomes more of style choice then a deeply important reflection of the human condition.\n\nAt a 5 to 1 ratio in a primitive society, women would probably surround men for protection and reproductive opportunity. Since forcing procreation from an unwilling man is difficult positive incentives would make men more influential. Depending on the life expectancy of males within such a society I imagine the social dynamics would be somewhat akin to a pride of lions where the women hunt and the male is tended to by females.",
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"body": "I think the minimum emergency ratio is 72 virgins:1 martyr. \n\nIf the nominal ratio gets too far from 1:1, then the martyr ratio takes effect.",
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Do you use a task list? If so what do you use? | I am looking to start using a task list to track development on a pretty large project. I am currently on information overload though and would like to find the easiest and most basic thing possible. If there is something that is free that is great. If it isn't free but cheap that is fine as well. I would also prefer that it be online and require no install on the server. | 27 | [
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"body": "org-mode in emacs is like a task list + a whole lot of other goodies rolled into one. It can be as simple or as complex as you make it, and can generate your time charts and status reports.\n\n ",
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"body": "If you use Mac OS X, I highly recommend [Things](http://culturedcode.com/things/).\n\nIt kinda follows the GTD methodology, but its not very hardcore about it",
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"body": "**todo.txt**\n\nSeriously, Danny O'Brien [interviewed a bunch of effective programmers](http://www.boingboing.net/2004/06/06/danny-obriens-life-h.html) and that was (mostly) their answer.\n\nI tried to find more info on the talk but could not. Cory Doctrow has three versions of notes on it [here](http://craphound.com/lifehacks2.txt), [here](http://craphound.com/lifehacksetcon04.txt), and [here](http://craphound.com/etech2005-lifehacks.txt).",
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"body": "Google Tasks. Works with my gMail, Calendar and Android phone seamlessly. I organize the lists using the GTD method. Works perfect.",
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"body": "I really liked tdl, the todo list: http://www.rpcurnow.force9.co.uk/tdl/\n\nI've gone up to something that's more like CRM, because most of my tasks these days also deal with other people+projects. For that I went with Daylite, a Mac CRM package. I had looked at Things and OmniFocus, which are also Mac desktop alternatives. Their online equivalent, free for some size of use, is 37signals Highrise/Basecamp http://37signals.com/.\n\nAnyhow, I'm not sure any of those meet all the criteria, but they are all awesome, so I mention them in case other people reading your entry might find them helpful. When I was looking for things that also synced to an iphone/ipod touch, http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ came up. Both Daylite and Things will sync with it too.",
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"body": "For a generic task list, http://www.rememberthemilk.com/ - a few people I know of use this in conjunction with *Getting Things Done* by David Allen (a productivity methodology).\n\nYou could also look into things like http://www.redmine.org/ as an open source project management tool - but you will find this needs a server and an install.",
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"body": "FreeMind -- designed as a brainstorming/mind mapping app, but I wind up using it for todo lists as well.",
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"body": "org-mode in Emacs and I try and stick to the Getting Things Done system. the timer really helps and so does the calendar.",
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Help finding a good efficient daily workout with a minial timescale. | A bit of background, I am 21. I recently finished uni and have started working full time, I am also doing a masters at night. This means I leave the house at 5.30 and get in at 11.00 most days (I work in a bank thus the hours). I have always been a fairly slight person but going from doing about an hour and a halves walking and running 3-5 miles a day to sitting infront of a screen all day and never havign time to eat a decent meal has resulted in me getting a bit overweight and very out of shape!
I have now managed to get my diet back to something fairly healthy and have started doing a bit of excercise each day and a run at weekends.
What I was really wondering is if people could give me a few hints and tips on what excercises can be done in a 15 minute window each morning and 2 longer weekend slots. It would be great if people had suggestions of things that might improve my general wellbeing and give me a bit of energy but the key issue for me at the moment is losing a bit of weight and building back up some muscle!
As it stands I am basicly doing a few sets of squats, sit ups and some basic stuff with weights!
If this isn't the place just let me know, but any help would be really appreciated!
Edit: I'd just like to say a really big thanks to everyone who has suggested stuff, this is why I love reddit! Thanks a real lot. | 7 | [
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"body": "Well, it goes without saying that you're not making health a priority. Being out of the house without any real breaks to take care of yourself for 18 hours a day will really hurt you in the long run. Bear that in mind.\n\nAs for your question, I would consider Tabata sets to hit major muscle groups. To save you a google, that's 20 seconds of max effort / 10 seconds of rest, repeat eight times. Four minutes total (8x30s). You could do a full tabata session for each in 12 minutes: air squats, pushups, and pullups. Max effort literally means max effort, you should be squeezing out absolutely as many reps as you can in 20 seconds, keep the lowest-rep set as a score and try to improve it next time. That intensity does mean you can overwork yourself if you aren't conscious of your body, take it easy for the first couple weeks and cut down from eight 30 second sets to four or six. Another way to scale down is by partitioning - four sets of each squats, push, pulls, then start over at squats for the second half - more time to recover within the workout for each muscle group. \n\nDon't do this kind of work every day, one or two rest days between sessions is appropriate - take those rest days for a relaxed jog or walk and enjoy the outdoors as much as you can, or just stretch out. The intensity of this kind of workout is equivalent to a combination of heavy lifting and sprinting, it will take a lot out of you but give a lot back while requiring very little time.",
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"body": "Can you use your own power to get between work/home/school? Sometimes it's easier get more exercise during the day than to set time aside for a workout. Parking or using a bus stop that's a mile or so from your destination is an easy way to squeeze in some exercise and it will only take 10-15 minutes to cover. ",
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I consider myself an excellent (front-end) developer, but I'm no "designer". How do I bridge the gap? | When I was in high school, I wanted to be a web-designer, so I taught myself HTML, then CSS, then JS, then PHP/mySQL. I've worked as a front-end developer for a few years now, but lost touch with what I actually wanted; to be a designer.
Is there any way to learn how to design beautiful websites? | 66 | [
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"body": "* Design something new a few times per week. Think of your design skills like muscles and make an effort to build them through brief exercises.\n* Learn to play with light, shadow and texture -- PROPERLY. Don't toss gradients and drop-shadows on elements just because. Always keep in mind the UI/UX justifications for making buttons have subtle 3D effects, or for giving your page body a soft gradient or texture. Never use effects for the sake of using effects.\n* Use whitespace/negative space. Find a site you or others think is beautiful and pay special attention to how things are spaced and how emptiness adds to the readability and overall appeal of certain page elements.\n* Read design blogs and subscribe to one or a few of the myriad gallery sites.\n* Get feedback. Your sensibilities as someone who's spent more time making things work than making things eye-pleasing may have skewed your design opinions.\n* Don't get feedback. Some of what you've absorbed as a developer can be applied to your designs and make them stronger. Where many designers fail is in not interacting with their final designs and in not putting themselves into the user mindset.\n\nBeing able to do both design and development will make you a dangerous web developer -- in a good way.",
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"body": "You could just do what 99% of designers do, which is thoughtlessly copy whatever you see on the design gallery sites. But that's just for visual design, for best practices, you want to thoughtlessly copy everything you read on A List Apart. \n\nBonus pro tip: make sure to check out Smashing Magazine to learn the top 10 best ways to do things.",
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"body": "* USE SHINY GLOSSY GRADIENTS\n* STARBURSTS WITH \"BETA\" INSIDE OF THEM!\n* COMIC SANS GOES WELL WITH EVERYTHING\n* REFLECTIONS OF EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE!!!!\n",
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"body": "Here we go (edit note: webdesign links first reply to this):\n\n**Theory**\n\nhttp://www.sigmainfotech.com.au/articles/graphic-designing-vs-web-designing.html\n\nhttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/indefenseofeyecandy\n\nhttp://www.layersmagazine.com/negative-space.html\n\nhttp://www.consumerwebwatch.org/news/report3_credibilityresearch/stanfordPTL.pdf\n\nhttp://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/teach-yourself-graphic-design-a-self-study-course-outline/\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/07/great-designers-steal/\n\nhttp://tutorialfeed.blogspot.com/2009/06/9-essential-elements-of-design.html\n\nhttp://justcreativedesign.com/2007/12/06/bad-graphic-design/\n\nhttp://adland.tv/content/unspoken-rules-graphic-design\n\nhttp://justcreativedesign.com/2007/11/22/top-mistakes-graphic-designers-make/\n\nhttp://www.creativeopera.com/2009/8-common-graphic-design-myths/\n\nhttp://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/comics/the-mechanics-of-comics/\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/17/lessons-from-swiss-style-graphic-design/\n\nhttp://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_ei\n\nhttp://www.youthedesigner.com/2007/12/10/30-delightful-graphic-design-books/\n\nhttp://www.hongkiat.com/blog/photoshop-shortcuts-tricks-boost-productivity/\n\nhttp://luxa.org/tutorial_compositing_with_adjustment_layers.php\n\nhttp://www.myinkblog.com/2009/07/28/how-to-correctly-use-bevels-drop-shadows-in-photoshop/\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Dynamic_Symmetry\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/26/20-time-saving-tips-to-improve-designers-workflow-part-1/\n\nhttp://abduzeedo.com/manipulation-basics-illumination-and-coloration\n\nhttp://abduzeedo.com/basic-coloring-tutorial-loleia\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/08/the-dos-and-donts-of-dark-web-design/\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/08/17-techniques-for-creating-designs-inspired-by-nature/\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/18/mastering-photoshop-with-paths/\n\nhttp://www.layersmagazine.com/website-design-tips-using-photoshop-cs4.html\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/9cn2y/building_a_design_library/\n\nhttp://www.ddrewdesign.com/blog/index.php?cmd=article&id=118\n\nhttp://www.ddrewdesign.com/blog/index.php?cmd=article&id=74\n\nhttp://www.fineart.sk/\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/08/50-clever-tutorials-and-techniques-on-traditional-drawing/\n\nhttp://sixrevisions.com/web_design/how-to-design-for-your-worst-client-you/\n\nhttp://www.graphicdesignblog.org/photoshopped-advertising-designs/\n\nhttp://graphicdesignblender.com/28-things-i-learned-as-a-full-time-graphic-designer\n\nhttp://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-WCAG20-20081211/#visual-audio-contrast-contrast\n\nhttp://www.cxpartners.co.uk/thoughts/the_myth_of_the_page_fold_evidence_from_user_testing.htm\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/07/minimizing-complexity-in-user-interfaces/\n\nhttp://www.artdesignschools.com/careers/top-20-most-influential-fonts-in-graphic-design/\n\nhttp://smyrskicreative.com/journal/some-thoughts-graphic-design\n\nhttp://cedarseed.com/fire/tutorials.html\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/10/systematizing-the-graphic-design-process/\n\nhttp://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Scan-a-Drawing\n\nhttp://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/visible_narratives_understanding_visual_organization\n\nhttp://www.alistapart.com/articles/redesignrealign\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/11/understanding-your-brain-for-better-design-left-vs-right/\n\nhttp://www.drawar.com/articles/smashing-magazine-killed-the-community-or-maybe-it-was-me/39/\n\nhttp://www.uxbooth.com/blog/writing-user-friendly-content/\n\nhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchbreath/4194962172/sizes/o/\n\nhttp://designreviver.com/general/the-15-best-articles-for-designers-in-2009/\n\nhttp://www.trippingwords.com/index.php/trippingwords/inner/what_is_design_reflections_on_the_definition_of_design/\n\nhttp://www.thereisnopagefold.com/\n\nhttp://www.dailyblogtips.com/crapthe-four-principles-of-sound-design/\n\nhttp://www.papress.com/other/thinkingwithtype/letter/few_fonts.htm\n\nhttp://www.papress.com/other/thinkingwithtype/index.htm\n\nhttp://deltadesignz.com/2009/12/16/why-designers-should-ditch-the-mouse-and-use-a-tablet/\n\nhttp://www.papress.com/other/thinkingwithtype/resources/type_advice.htm\n\nhttp://www.webdevtuts.net/articles/why-you-shouldnt-steal-someones-else-source-code-or-design/\n\nhttp://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/12/22/design-something-every-day/\n\nhttp://imgfave.com/view/22223\n\nhttp://www.userfocus.co.uk/fable/index.html\n\nhttp://www.trippingwords.com/index.php/trippingwords/inner/a_bystanders_perspective_on_the_design_community/\n\nhttp://www.trippingwords.com/index.php/trippingwords/inner/the_risk_of_being_unique_a_look_at_the_essence_of_design_styles/\n\nhttp://mmuller.com/blog/design/passion/\n\nhttp://www.uxbooth.com/blog/ambient-user-experience/\n\nhttp://designm.ag/freelance/keys-to-growth/\n\nhttp://blog.creativityden.com/the-six-fundamental-ways-of-adding-depth-to-your-designs/\n\nhttp://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/grid-a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"body": "Start screen-capping every good design you see (I have thousands, organized in different categories). Draw inspiration from them, something from this, something from that. Everytime I get stumped I put on a slideshow of works and get ideas... \n\nDon't copy, but get inspired by them. ",
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"body": "You can become skilled in graphic arts, fine arts just like anything else - with some formal training. It will teach you the language of visual communication. From crappy stick figures to real art, I've seen this transformation in dozens of people. I say take some classes in a good college to learn the fundamentals, then you'll be more equipped to handle design problems.",
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"body": "I'm pretty much the same way... I'm pretty sure the type of brain you need to be a good programmer and the type of brain you need to be a good designer are quite different, and it's pretty rare that someone is really good at both. I'm a pretty good programmer, but can't make things look nice.",
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"body": "Most people find design intimidating because they stopped drawing pictures when they were 5. I bet if you stopped writing at age 5, you would find that intimidating as well.\n\nIf you're serious about learning web design, I recommend you learn about the elements and principals of art and design. It might sound stuffy and archaic, but nothing could be more essential.\n\nA great place to start learning how to think like an artist is with the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain:\n\n[http://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774241](http://www.amazon.com/New-Drawing-Right-Side-Brain/dp/0874774241)\n\nedit: Also, try to design something every day. Practice design like a musician practices their instrument.",
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Anyone else just love yanking the floor out from underneath invaders? | I have a habit of building a wide and deep pit right in front of my fortress' front door, and covering it with a retracting bridge. I got a goblin siege last night. Managed to coax them all onto the platform by repeatedly unlocking and locking the front door. The timing was perfect. They were all on the bridge when the lever was thrown. For just a second, they hang in midair, then they drop, down to the awaiting serrated disc traps four z-levels below.
I absolutely friggin' *love* it when that happens.
Melt down anything they have that's made of metal that my dwarves can't use, sell the rest of it to merchants along with little trinkets carved from their bones. | 12 | [
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"body": "There was this one fort that I saw once, had a bone farm set up similarly to what you have. Two retractable bridges cover a pit and are walled off. Animals are dropped onto the bridges and are let to breed for a year or so.\nThen one of the bridges is retracted, dropping half of the creatures down 6 levels into a massive underground bone stockpile. The bridge is pulled back out and the remaining animals start again.\n\n**Edit**: [I found it.](http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-17411-thepit) This is a great fort though, have a look around.",
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This afternoon I rear ended a Police car doing 70Mph past a school, then ran away... What should I do next? | Both cars were written off, but I was saved by my airbag. No kids were harmed although they weren't half making a racket, so I told them all to be quiet otherwise I'd be back for them too then punched out their teacher so she wouldn't remember me. The policemen were both unconscious, so I stole one of their hats as a souvenir. Then legged it.
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"body": "Run to the river, find yourself a nice healthy sized branch and proceed to beat yourself with it. . Once you can no longer feel your face or can't see (whichever happens first) throw it into the river and let your evidence of self torture turn into into your flotsam of freedom. You can then proceeed to crawl to the nearest roadway to ask for help and proceed to tell the police how you were carjacked and beaten to a pulp.",
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who else does NOT care about Conan, Leno and
their shows? | I don't care about those shows, hosts and the little drama that happens between them. I don't watch them, they aren't funny. All related links and submissions should move to /r/notfunny. | 507 | [
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"body": "The only thing I have been surprised about the whole late night thing is that Craig Fergusun can be insightful and a little funny. Yes it sucks that Conan is losing his job, and yes there are a lot more pressing matters you can be following instead. Though if you are someone that is not following it I don't see why you have to proclaim it so loudly to everyone else that you are above this. Let's be frank no one honestly thinks this issue is more important than what's going on in Haiti, the middle east or Korea to name a few places.\n\nTL;DR I bitched about people bitching",
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"body": "i agree. fuck TV and the hippo it rode in on. Female ejaculation videos set to satanic gangster rap are the only way to go!",
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"body": "Absolutely couldn't care less. Also, none of them are funny. I mean none of them, Letterman Fallon Kimmel Leno Conan etc etc just not funny at all. I can't wait for this stupid shit to blow over.\n",
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"body": "Celebrities on couches telling cute stories. Year after year after year after year after year after year after year after year after year...",
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"body": "I can't see the appeal of them myself. They're rarely funny, and they're so starved for subject matter that they just end up telling jokes that have already been all over other media.\n\nAlso, SNL isn't funny. I had to sit through that shit a few weeks ago. There was an almost funny skit, followed by one of the ones that just involved some character freaking out and screaming because some relative was pregnant. It just dragged on and on, with no humor at all, a sketch involving a retard being loud and retarded.",
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"body": "Who is Conan and Leno?\n\nJust kidding, but seriously, I only watch those shows when I'm visiting my grandparents and they are like \"Come in the other room honey, Leno said something hilarious!\" Even then,I only show up after being bribed with oreos and soda. I could give a crap. Theres this other guy that comes on really late when my cable goes out that sounds kinda foreign, and he has a monkey puppet in the intro. At least hes funny and not making stupid top 10 lists.",
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"body": "upvoted..\n\nI submitted a similar one. Lets get them on the front page to keep things in perspective.\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/aq1oq/anyone_else_not_give_a_shit_about_millionaires/\n\n",
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"body": "I watch very little television and I also do not care about these shows. I think that what happened to Conan is pretty shitty, but I am getting tired of so many of the same stories getting submitted **and** upvoted. Again and again. The exact same stories with the same links, or different links with the same damned stories.\n\nAren't there more important things going on that should be hitting the front page?",
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"body": "War in Iraq, economy in the shitter, job hopes are getting worse by the second.\n\nI really don't give a fuck about the pissing contest between two millionaires. ",
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"body": "I don't care either. If I am awake and interested in a late night show, I usually decide by who has a guest I want to see. The host personality has little to do with the decision to watch.",
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"body": "The only times I've ever seen either they've just seemed to sit there going \"yup\" while someone else talks. I don't know what all the noise is about.",
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"body": "Enough people to make it to the second page of reddit. Congratulations?\n\n*First Page now I'll capitalize CONGRATULATIONS?",
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"body": "The irony is that the same people who bitch about tiger woods infidelity eating up news cycles are the same people who want to sign petitions and put conan hair on the reddit guy. I doubt the thought crossed their minds when this story is on the cover of the NYT and on CNN every day.",
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"body": "fuck those shows. they are nothing more than commercials with a static format. the guest only come on to promote or sell something and the conversation between them and the host is fake, scripted and rehearsed. not only that, but the same people make the rounds of the talk shows and say the same thing over and over again! the comedy routines are stale and dumb, and the monologues at the beginning are trite and pointless. dont be a zombie, dont watch this shit! turn your tv OFF!",
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"body": "This. When I commented about not caring... well, lets say their fans appear to object to even the existence of people not caring.\n\nI could watch the odd bit of Craig Ferguson, but the rest of them... I'd rather watch paint dry.",
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"body": "The whole thing is nonsense. Can we talk about something else now? How about something important, like the Federal Reserve buying all our debt and keeping the interest rate artificially low?",
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"body": "I'm English I couldn't give a shit about them. They're not funny anyway. Now if East Enders was put back by an hour THAT would be the end of the world!",
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"body": "i have occasionally tried watching leno, conan, letterman, etc. after various friends over the years have raved about one or the other.\n\ni fucking hated them, without exception. i can't even stand watching one- or two-minute youtube clips (like some of those which have hit reddit these past couple of days).\n\ni'll watch them and be like \"people are actually entertained by this drivel?\" it boggles my mind.\n\non the other hand, i have watched several craig ferguson clips and have found them engaging and entertaining.",
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"body": "I do not now, nor have I ever given a flying rat's fuck about any of these people and/or their insipid shows. ",
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"body": "I could care less about them, I mean yeah they're funny but I just don't care. So yeah... this whole \"OMG EVERYONE SUPPORT CONAN AND KILL EVERYONE ELSE\" bullshit is annoying as hell.",
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"body": "Having not watched TV except for the occasional Daily Show or Colbert Report for the last 5 years, I can say that I do not give a damn about any of it. I already know more about the situation than I care to know.",
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Any cool projects you're currently working on and are obsessed with? | I, for one, just completed [my first iPhone game (link to iTunes)](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chilly-zombies-lite/id350353692?mt=8) (and it's free too). I was totally obsessed with it for months. | 9 | [
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"body": "A weekly YouTube sketch show that me and my best friends from middle school/high school all work on together. We've got a pretty good audience going and I am very proud of several of the videos.\n\n[smbc theater](http://www.smbc-theater.com/)",
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"body": "I just bought an original 1981 TRON arcade cabinet. I plan to restore it like new. I haven't started the project as yet.",
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I have been getting some great news for these last couple of weeks. Reddit, what's something really good that's happened for you recently? | I'm applying to doctoral programs in psychology, and so far I've gotten accepted to one of my top choices (Berkeley!) and gotten interviews at a few more. It's been really exciting! I can't really celebrate with my fellow students because many of them are still anxiously awaiting responses. So, I thought I'd ask you guys! I thought it might be a nice change of pace from some of the more depressing things that are going on right now. What is something really good that's happened for you lately? Has anyone gotten some really great news that they want to share? | 7 | [
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"body": "this may not sound as great news, but it is to me. I totally thought today was thursday but it's friday. I looked at my calendar and I am all smiles now. \r\n\r\n\r\nthe little things, guys. ",
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"body": "Well, I started college this past fall and almost instantly I discovered a really good group of friends. It's about seven of us and we spend about 90% of our time with each other. I thought there would be no problems, except I developed a HUGE thing for one of the girls in the group - let's call her Jessica. Jessica and I hung out alone a few times, but she took a very strong stand against inter-group hook ups/dating, so I thought there was no hope. However, the entire group decided to take a trip up to Boston to visit me over winter break and during this two-day trip, her and I ran off a few times for a few minutes to just get away and hang out - nothing big. Then, about a week ago, her, our friend Harry and myself took a two day trip to New York. We ended up hooking up, and I thought it would stop there, but I decided to take a risk and ask her on a date, to which she obliged. We went out for coffee, walked around for a few hours, then watched and kissed during the sunset in Central Park. We made it official that day, and now I can't wait to get back to school on Sunday to see her for the first time since. We've been keeping it really low-key, but I think we're going to tell everyone next Friday and hope that everyone approves and is accepting. ",
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"body": "Someone else bought the house next door to me so my parents couldn't buy it as their retirement house. So unbelievably happy. Thank you universe and my new next door neighbors. ",
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"body": "My husband has recently been employed after 7 months out of work. We won't start seeing paychecks until March (he has to go through some training stuff) but moving out of the mother in law's house in on the horizon. Thank fucking god!",
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"body": "Because of work, my soon-to-be-fiance's aunt and uncle are moving to/being stationed in another country for a minimum of 3 years. His aunt's mother lives with them in their 5 bedroom home in Colorado. They've asked us if we'd like to live in their house, completely rent-free, for the next 3+ years, beginning at the exact time my lease expires this spring. We don't even have to pay for utilities, tv, or internet. They'll put my boyfriend on the car insurance and let us use their SUV. All we have to do is live with his 70-something grandmother (who can't drive and speaks spanish) and dog (an awesome german shepard), and move to a different state. The only expenses we will have is food, gas, (my) car insurance, and general home supplies. I am psyched! The house sounds amazing, and even has a small gym as part of the soundproof 2nd story master suite. ",
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Help me identify this English football song....please. | I'm going to hum it for you. Daa Da Da Da.... Nevermind, I'm tone deaf.
Here's the best I can do, and I know it's not a lot to go on. I hear fans sing this song at almost every English football match I watch no matter the competition, no matter the teams playing. Just a few bars into the song, the crowd claps in synch for a a few bars and then stops, until they repeat the song and clap those same bars again. If you watched the Reading v Liverpool FA Cup match Wednesday, the crowd sang it quite a number of times throughout. Can someone please name that tune. It's been a mystery to me for years. Thanks! | 4 | [
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"body": "I think the one you are thinking of goes a little something like this:\n\n\"And it's no nay never *clap clap clap*/\nNo nay never no more, 'cos [insert team name here]/\nAre by far the greatest team the world has ever seen\"\n\n(The metre doesn't seem to fit at the end, but I'm not too sure)\n\nIt's taken from the chorus of [this folk song.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Rover)\n\nIn my opinion, it's very unimaginative and perhaps the only decent version is [this one from Turf Moor.](http://www.fanchants.com/football-songs/burnley-chants/no-nay-never-1/)\n\nI much prefer [this one](http://www.fanchants.com/football-songs/manchester_united-chants/he-goes-by-the-name/) and [this one](http://www.fanchants.com/football-songs/manchester_united-chants/wesley-brown/). :D",
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DAE Make a distinction between 'immortal' and 'invincible'? | Here's the way I see it:
* Immortal - You are immune to the effects of aging and possibly diseases, and unless you suffer injury you have the potential to live forever. Example - Elves from Lord of the Rings.
* Invincible - You are essentially immune to injury or damage (you might have weaknesses) but you will not live forever. Example - Superman (With a Kryptonite weakness. Also dependent on the radiation of a yellow sun).
A Highlander would be an example of someone that is both immortal and invincible (barring their head being cut off). | 48 | [
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"body": "I'm pretty sure they mean, \n\n- Immortal: Can't die. \n- Invincible: Can't be defeated. \n\nPretty different, IMHO. \n",
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"body": "I figured Immortality was a permanent passive in which HP = 0 doesn't cause death. But Invincibility is a temporary buff which prevents any decrease in HP whatsoever.\n\nCertain heroic figures have or are granted immortality, but any joe can get invincibility by chugging a potion or allying with a shadow hunter.",
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"body": "I agree 100% with your invincible, but with immortality, I say you do live forever no matter what. Although I really have no idea what to answer when you say \"what if the body is chopped up into 100's of pieces\". The most I could really answer is you'll be re-incarnated sort to speak.",
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"body": "**Immortal**: not mortal. Not subject to aging and death by natural causes. Basically will only die by external causes such as violence, poison, getting blown up. Left alone, will live forever.\n\n**Invincible**: not able to be defeated. Could therefore still be injured, could die of natural causes, could commit suicide, but could not be killed by an enemy. The word describes the results, but doesn't provide a mechanism. So someone invincible may not have a body that can survive being flung into the sun, for example, but if they are invincible it means no one will ever be able to do that (however that works).\n\n**Invulnerable**: not able to be harmed. Bullets bounce off, etc. Someone invulnerable could not be invincible because they could be captured and imprisoned, if not harmed. They could also still die of natural causes.",
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How do I find out if a company does random drug tests or not? | So I interviewed for a position, and I know that I have to submit a clean sample upon hiring(which shouldn't be a problem, I always stop smoking when I look for a job), but I've heard rumors that they do random drug tests too... How can I find out if this is true or not? I'd really like to start smoking again after I get hired, (it's been 2 months!)... But if they do random drug tests, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I guess quitting smoking for a while wouldn't be the end of the world, but damn I miss it. I wanna get high again!
So, any help or suggestions as to my predicament would be helpful. | 30 | [
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"body": "Always ask in the interview, somewhere in between \"How many sick days do I get?\" and \"How strict is your sexual harrassment policy?\".",
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"body": "You should find this out during the orientation. Also I've worked places that say they do random testing but they never do. 'Random drug tests' are a cover up for 'fire a worthless employee that we know does drugs'. If you are a good employee it won't be worth it to them to fire you for something insignificant.*\n\n\n*Exception may apply for govt jobs, or douchebags ",
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"body": "In most cases, it's pretty safe to ask a peon. The guy hauling shopping carts out of the parking lot most certainly does not give a fuck. This strategy doesn't really work for white collar desk job sorta things, but yeah. That's my strategy.",
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"body": "I worked for a company for yrs that decided to start the policy, i was clean so it really wasn't a issue. I however have seious reservations about working for any company who has such a policy. Now i understand economics, but as the IDEA of random testing is a blackjack, you may consider questioning if you want to work for such a place. It's easy for me to say, im retired.",
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"body": "I've had excellent results calling the company, asking for human resources, and describing the research paper I'm working on about the rise of drug testing by businesses. You can usually find out what kind of test they use (blood, saliva, urine, etc.) and even the company they use for their testing. With that information you can call the drug testing facility and, with luck, speak to someone who actually knows how the place works beyond the front desk. They may not answer any specific questions about their policies or testing procedures, but it's worth a try. ",
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"body": "Testclear used to have a database where you could search by company name. Now, google and firefox list it as a malware site so I'm not going to bother linking to it. Anyone know what the story with it is, and if there are alternative sites?\n\nedit: it's still there, and i've notified them that it's been infected. if they fix it, try googling for \"test clear companies that drug test\" and as soon as google doesn't list it as a site that may harm your computer, go for it. the list is by no means comprehensive though. good luck.",
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What self-help books have actually helped you? | I find that about 1 in 10 have great insights and really teach me something. George Leonard's "Mastery", and "The Richest Man in Babylon" (author?) were two very good ones I recently read.
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"body": "This is a bit weird, but that dog whisperer dude wrote a book on dogs. No training tips really, it was just a book on dog psychology. I'm telling you that book changed my life. My dog no longer drives me bat shit insane because I finally understand what's going through his peanut of a brain.",
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"body": "Allen Carr's [The Easy Way to Stop Smoking](http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Way-Stop-Smoking-Non-Smokers/dp/1402718616/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263588509&sr=8-1). Finished it last Friday and haven't smoke since. It really is easy.",
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"body": "The bible....oh here come the down votes! :) \r\n\r\nBut it seriously does help me daily. I've never really read any other self help books, but I did read Sully's book about landing on the Hudson. That was a good read.",
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"body": "The Game by Neil Strauss.\r\n\r\nMore of a novel than a \"self-help\" book, but considering it's about people who teach \"self-help\" courses and contains many of their philosophies and advice it fits the bill. The Game completely changed the way I thought about women and my approach to them. More than anything else it helped transform me from a neurotic mess with women to someone playful, attractive, and confident. It's only of the very few sources of courtship advice for men that goes beyond spouting useless cliches such as \"Just be yourself\" and actually gives you practical advice you can *use*.",
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"body": "I really love Robert Greene's books The Art of Seduction and The 48 Laws of Power. They aren't really self help books in the traditional style and they're more complicated than the titles seem. They teach you how to deal with people and get what you want from them using examples from history of what to do and what not to do.",
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"body": "\"The Power of Now\" by Eckart Tolle and Osho's \"The Book of Secrets\". Self-help bordering on philosophy but it was life changing for me.",
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"body": "[It's Called a Break-up Because it's Broken](http://www.amazon.com/Its-Called-Breakup-Because-Broken/dp/0767921852). It totally got my head on straight after my most recent break-up. ",
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"body": "It's not a self-help book, but The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts is my favorite book of all time and is probably the only book I can think of that allowed me to empower myself and reshape my thinking at a relatively young age.\n\nI recommend it constantly.",
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"body": "The Intelligent Investor. It won't teach you how to make millions on the stock market, but teaches you the principals, mindset, and foundation to have when dealing with investing. ",
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"body": "The only two that ever helped me were The Feeling Good Handbook by Dr. David Burns and Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Suzanne Jeffers. There's a lot of worthless pop psychology out there and I had to wade through a lot of crap to find those.",
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"body": "*Creating True Peace* by Thich Nhat Hahn. He's a Buddhist monk of international renown. His ideas on mindfulness and defining and combating non-physical violence have stayed with me and helped me through a number of rough patches. I still re-read pieces when I start to get angry about big things. ",
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"body": "[This one](http://www.amazon.com/Juggling-Complete-Klutz-John-Cassidy/dp/0932592007)\n\nI stopped reading after the first few chapters once I got the basics down.",
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"body": "The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell\n\nI don't think a single other book has helped me as much as this one.\n\n>\"My purpose is to suggest a cure for the ordinary day-to-day unhappiness from which most people in civilized countries suffer, and which is all the more unbearable because, having no obvious external cause, appears inescapable.\" ",
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"body": "[The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment](http://freespace.virgin.net/sarah.peter.nelson/lazyman/lazyman.html) is short, simple, and free.",
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"body": "[Codependent No More](http://www.amazon.com/Codependent-No-More-Controlling-Yourself/dp/0894864025) is really great. It focuses a lot on having a loved one with alcohol or drug addictions, but it's also really useful if you're getting out of a relationship. You can apply it to any situation that leaves you needing to rely on yourself!",
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"body": "[Change Your Thinking](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Change-Your-Thinking-CBT-Overcome/dp/0091906954) is a great book to teach yourself Cognitive Behavioral therapy (especially when you can't afford a shrink to help you)",
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"body": "[If You Had Controlling Parents](http://www.controllingparents.com/) is fucking amazing.\n\nAs well as [Toxic In-Laws.](http://www.amazon.com/Toxic-Laws-Strategies-Protecting-Marriage/dp/0060507853)\n\nRead it, read it, read it. Absolutely life-saving.",
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My dad wants an aluminum baseball for home defense. Is this a good Father's Day gift? | Further explanation is necessary, of course. My father is over forty and has, to my knowledge, never taken any physical self-defense classes. He goes to yoga and tennis weekly and works out every day, though. He has a rifle and a handgun; he's never fired the former and the latter has been in pieces for years. He has expressed interest in an aluminum baseball bat for home defense. Is this wise? And should I get him one for Father's Day, if so?
edit: [facepalm] Aluminum baseball BAT. | 19 | [
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"body": "Aluminum baseballs are probably a poor choice for home defense. If you had multiples, then maybe you could invest in a pitching machine and point it towards your front door, perhaps with a pressure plate to activate it.",
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"body": "Aluminum is not a good choice for hitting somebody as the vibrations go through the bat. If you slightly miss your attacker and hit something solid your are going to be shocked. I would give him a wooden Louisville Slugger with a good tape grip.",
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"body": "My father-in-law chased an intruder out of his house with a baseball bat (wooden). The point that won me over is that while the intimidation factor is pretty high, while the accidentally killing a loved one factor remains low. ",
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"body": "get him a large aluminum flashlight like bikers carry... it can be used for illumination as well as decimation... a much better choice... plus if he has to stove in someones skull he just had a flashlight to look around but was a peaceful man... a better defense in court.",
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"body": "Those collapsible batons are the best, they are easier to use, and faster, and anyone who gets hit by one is gonna know it.",
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"body": "Crowbar, not baseball bat. Thicker, heavier, and you can do shit with it like open doors ... and other things that resemble doors.",
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"body": "How about getting him a dog. Like a German Shepherd or a Doberman. This way he gets his home defended, as well as getting a new friend. Win-Win.",
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"body": "A baseball bat could be tough to swing in tight areas like hallways. I've got a [Ka-Bar Kukri](https://www.kabar.com/product/productDetail.do?productNumber=1249&mode=search&categoryId=1,2,3,7&categoryName=Product%20Search%20Results) and a [Stanley FuBar](http://www.amazon.com/Stanley-55-099-FatMax-Functional-Utility/dp/B000FCGS0Y). \n\nI've always said, \"If you're ready for a Zombie attack, you're ready for anything.\" Except, maybe, real life.",
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"body": "My dad gave me a Louisville Slugger when I moved into my apartment. I keep it in the corner, it makes me feel safe. It's a nice wood one, you don't need an aluminum one, necessarily. \n\nNot sure if that's the best Father's Day gift, but I'm sure that he would appreciate it. ",
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"body": "I'm assuming you mean aluminum baseball bats. Common mistake. I can't seem to have enough aluminum baseballs personally.",
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"body": "There are two major problems with using a bat for home self-defense.\n\n* If the person he is defending his home from has a gun or knife your father will likely end up dead or severely wounded. You say he's never taken any self-defense courses so he may be somewhat awkward even with bat in hand, and the intruder will probably know what they are doing with their weapon.\n\n* If he does manage to catch the person off-guard and bludgeons them with said bat he is opening himself up to a lawsuit. It is sick and twisted, but criminals often win cases like that because they are being beaten mercilessly rather than being detained or scared off.\n\n\nPersonally I think a person should be able to defend their home by whatever means he or she finds necessary. Unfortunately there are some lawyers who have figured out they can cash in on hapless burglars that caught a beating making it harder to keep your homestead safe.",
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"body": "[If you really love your dad.. you will give him this](http://www.coldsteel.com/brooklynsmasher.html)",
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IAmA guy who works in a retail store that sells predominantly women's clothing. AMAA | Probably not the most interesting post around, but I know there are a *lot* of misconceptions about guys who work in retail that I would like to set straight!
I work in a retail store in the mall that caters to rich and middle-class citizens of the area. Our store merchandise (mostly clothing and accessories) consists of about 25% male items, and 75% female items. I am given a sales goal (or quota, if you like) of how many sales I should make **minimum**, for the day and then the week. I am not paid on commission, although it is pretty important that I hit this
The Rules: I do not want to tell you guys the store that I work in, simply because I am still employed there, and I know a few of my co-workers probably read reddit :P | 5 | [
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"body": "Does your store carry pants (particularly denim) for women by inseam sizing or simply by dress size? I've long had a problem with the fact that a man can walk into a store, know his inseam, and walk out with a pair of pants that are the precise inch of waist-to-length that he needs, while women are subjected to \"standard dress sizes\", which, really, do not mean anything and are total bullshit that will always equal ill-fitting clothes or an additional trip to the tailor.\n\nI know inseam sizing with denim is a new trend a lot of stores are starting to carry for women, so I'm curious if it's something your store sells, how available it is, and how long you've carried it.",
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"body": "When sales people tell me how great something looks/fits, how cute it is, and that they own this piece themselves and love it, what percentage of the time is it actually true? \nI would love to hear true opinions, especially from a straight guy, but it seems that sales people are afraid to honestly answer about how some size fits (like if I ask if I need a different size), they try to fish for info on what I think and then re-enforce that, and that is just useless to me. \n(rant because I was just out buying some clothes today and was helped by a guy in one store, though he was very nice I question his sincerity).",
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Office 2007 Licensing for a Terminal Services Server environment, how do I configure this? | I have been setting up a Server 2008 R2 machine for a client, which will be running RDS and have 25 RDS CALs for users to connect simultaneously. He would like to have Word installed on the server for users to use while in RDS sessions, and I have been trying to sort out the licensing for this and have managed to confuse myself entirely. According to a Volume Licensing document for Terminal Services...
>Every device that uses Windows Server Terminal Services to remotely access Microsoft Office requires a Terminal Services CAL, in addition to Windows Server CAL and a Microsoft Office license. Dedicate a Microsoft Office license for every desktop on or from which you plan to use or access Microsoft Office, even if that use is only occasional. Examples of desktops that might access Microsoft Office using Windows Server Terminal Services functionality include Windows-based workstations, Macintosh computers, and UNIX workstations. The servers hosting the applications do not require Microsoft Office licenses.
This says to me that all we will need is a single license to install Word on the server, and then users connecting over RDS will be able to use Word on the server, without needing to have 25 licenses installed on the server itself.
Has anyone configured an environment like this before? The client is really barking up the tree on this one, and I need to get it resolved so he can put this server into production. | 6 | [
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"body": "Like others have said, you need a licence for each user connecting to the server regardless of whether or not they already have a licence on the local machine they are connecting from. Microsoft would never let so much revenue get away to only accept a single licence for the job. Someone said the licensing support at Microsoft is awesome but my experience has been horrible. I feel very few people truly understand their licensing, not even their own staff. It's one of the reasons that pushed me to use linux more and more when and where I could. I stopped having to learn about and manage those licences",
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What do you think about when trying to not have an erection? (maybe NSFW ??) | I don't want to get into details but recently I was in one of those "Must not have erection" situations and all of a sudden an old text based game "Earth:2025" popped in my head, probably because it was my trick when I was a teen.
I guess the "cliché" is to think about baseball... what's yours? | 4 | [
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"body": "I think about how pointless my vote is relative to the general popuration and convince myself not to participate in the erection.",
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"body": "It was a common advice when i was growing up, to try to think about an older female politician in a bikini. But at some point, I heard about Pavlov and his dogs, and decided not to risk conditioning myself to associate older female politicians in bikini with sexual arousal. Much better to just hide it.",
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"body": "I had a friend get an erection while walking to the front of class for a presentation. The teacher told him to put it away. Apparently you don't want his advice.",
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Reddit, what's the worst way you've left a job? | I'm 25 and since I was 18 I've had 5 jobs. I've left 2 of them on what I consider pretty shitty terms (i.e. I wouldn't be able to go back if I wanted to).
What is the worst way you've ever left a job? | 5 | [
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"body": "I was working at a homeless veteran's shelter. The boss' inability to properly understand the gravity of his position lead to the death of one of the vets, who happened to be a pal of mine.\n\nSo I called the boss \"a token black lackey without the education, intellect or wisdom to be making life or death decisions.\"",
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"body": "Went to lunch, took food orders from boss and secretary, and they never heard from me again. Shitty, yes, but so worth it. I still laugh thinking about it. ",
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"body": "I had been in a part-time job for a year and half. \nApart from 2 supervisors and the manager I was the oldest employee there.\n\nThey were dickheads. Payed you wrong, messed up your shifts, cut your hours, made you do extra with no pay, rules were outrageous. The whole place was a joke. \n\nFor the month before I had loads of problems. They said holidays I had booked 6 months in advance to revise for my finals would have to be revooked and that I would be expected to work late shifts (which I never did since there was no transport to where I live after a certain hour). They were rude, obnoxious and working for them was humilliating. They'd ask me to come in and help/cover shifts and I'd commute an hour and half to be told I was no longer needed or that I would only be there for an hour or so when I arrived. They ignored my request to not be put on the earliest shift which resulted on me having to wake up at :530 to get to work at 8:00. But hey I need the money. So I put with it and was really good at what I did, never had complaints from anyone.\n\nThis day, I went to speak to the assistan-manager about a wrong pay check and she said that she heard reports that I had turned up to work drunk the week before. Absolute lie, the week before I asked to stay in stock room duty because we had a death in my family the night before and I wasn't in right mind to deal with customers. That was the straw that broke the camels back, I went upstairs, sat down and broke down crying. There was shit going on in every aspect of my life and now this bullshit. I rang my mum, asked her if she'd mind comming to pick me up. I left in tears, told the supervisor some lame execuse and never returned.\n\nI was 17 and they treated me like that.",
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"body": "I just stopped going, a la Office Space. It was a crap retail job and they started scheduling me for overnight inventory sessions and the like.",
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"body": "I was hired by a temp company to work for a big computer vendor full time.\n\nAfter 2 weeks of working, the computer vendor decides they're going to cut costs by sending temps home when there was \"not enough work to go around.\" I'd commute an hour and be turned around to go home (they wouldn't even bother with a courtesy phone call to tell me not to come in), even though I only agreed to take this job as full time employment. Either the temp company lied, or the vendor decided they could screw with temps and the companies that employed them. In any case, without any kind of reliable scheduling, I'm not sure how they expected anyone in this scenario to keep a roof over their heads.\n\nWell, I had rent to pay.\n\nSo one day I didn't go in. I didn't hear from them until several days later - they didn't even notice my absence. \n\nI told the guy who called that I'd taken another job.\n\nHe was all angry and shocked, saying this was unprofessional and so on. You could tell they really needed people that day.\n\nI paused for a minute, then told the guy in a very dry tone that I hoped his wife (who was pregnant) would spontaneously abort, and hung up the phone.\n\nI didn't use them as a reference.\n\nThis was a long time ago in a different kind of economy.",
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"body": "I was a senior in HS and was able to buy booze without ID because I looked and sounded like my brother. However a month before the senior party everything dried up even my brother commented about being carded. I worked at a restaurant/bar so I asked one of the cooks to go by me some booze, he did and I thought all was well. However, someone had been stealing booze from the liquor room(I did not know this at the time), I hid the booze behind the propane tanks and noticed some movement in a doorway no one really used. After 10 minutes I moved the booze to another location. I went to work and thought nothing of it. An hour later I noticed the owner looking mad and staring right at me. He said, \"where is it?\"; I said \"where is what?\". I then noticed my duffel bag was open, I asked who had opened it and he said that he had. He then asked again where the booze was and I said I had no idea what he was talking about. He then said, \"go punch out you are done.\" I walked up to the front desk and punched out. My sister worked there and asked what I was doing, I started to cry and told her I had been fired and to call my mom to get me(no drivers license). Picked up the booze later and had a great party. A few weeks later I got a call from the owner asking me back. I told him I wanted a raise and he said okay. Found out later that his two sons were stealing it and they found out after putting a camera in the liquor room.",
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"body": "After entering the boss's office and not receiving a satisfactory answer as to why all of our paychecks were late, I left in a huff and slammed the door so hard that I heard a mirror near the door in his office crash to the floor. That was not my intention and I was horrified. Gathered my things from my desk, walked out of the building, and never returned. (And yes, eventually received my check.)",
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"body": "When I was 18 I worked for concrete construction company. Pay was ok for being 18 but the dude I was stuck with all day was a douche bag. He constantly harassed me about shit. Saying things like \"your girl friend is off banging dudes while you work\" \"you should get a job at a desk\" (he knew I was doing IT previously) just generally pissing me off. \n\nWell when the day came time to pour this patio we had been working on for the past 2 weeks I just didn't show. The pour started at 5 AM and the rest of the company wasn't in until 7 AM. It was just supposed to me and him. The bastard had to do it himself until someone else came in. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "After seven years of bullshit at a job, I posted an anonymous complaint on an IT web site and stupidly included just enough information that someone put two and two together and felt it necessary to send it to my office. There had been some other problems so this was kind of a mutual \"last straw\".\n\nThey let me \"quit\" instead of getting fired and we agreed on four week's notice so I could pass on my knowledge to someone else before I left. I was trying to take the high road so I actually made the effort to document my job. However, after two weeks they suddenly decided I was a security risk, even as I sat there faithfully typing up the documentation.\n\nMy snake of a boss had called me that morning asking for an afternoon meeting to discuss my job responsibilities, but when I got there the asskisser from HR was also there and I knew something was up. They basically told me to pack my stuff and get out without even saying goodbye to all of the people I had worked with for seven years who had been planning a goodbye party for me. I insisted on going around and saying goodbye anyway.\n\nI threw all my stuff into the box and walked out of the building with HR right behind me. \"You need to give back your parking pass.\" Oooh, a parking pass! Like I'm ever going to need it again</s>. So I threw it on the ground at his feet and drove away.\n\nGot pulled over less than a mile away for speeding. I was still crying and told the cop I just got fired so he only gave me a warning. That was a bad day. \n\nGood news is that I found a better job two weeks later and that was three years ago. I haven't had any of the problems at this place that I had at the last one, which is reassuring, because I was starting to think it was me.",
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I'm going to be on a US reality TV show tonight. AMAA | Hello reddit! It's been a long road to tonight, when I'll appear on ABC's business-y show [Shark Tank](http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/) at 9/8c, where entrepreneurs pitch their business in front of 5 "shark" investors for potential funding.
The segment was actually filmed in August on the Sony/ABC lot (I walked through the HIMYM set, which was kinda cool), with a little "home segment" cutaway being filmed in September in NYC.
The business I pitched on the show is [The Factionist](http://www.thefactionist.com), an ethical apparel company trying to create positive but effective awareness-building clothing.
It's an AMAA because I can't answer questions which would reveal the content of my segment or the outcome. Mark Burnett productions made me sign a pretty airtight NDA. But, I'm allowed to talk about anything else. Small-time entrepreneurship, college, the glamour of TV land are all fair game.
Overall, I'm nervous (about how they'll decide to tell my story, how I'll look, if people will react negatively/positively to the business, etc.) to appear in front of 5 million viewers tonight.
For verification:
[Still from the show preview](http://i.imgur.com/WC6qO.jpg) and a
[Picture of myself (hi reddit!)](http://imgur.com/xCFdg.jpg)
EDIT: after about 10pm EST (or whenever after my segment airs during the 9pm show) this becomes an AMA.
EDIT3: OK! The segment aired, so this is now officially an AMA.
EDIT4: [The episode is now up on Hulu](http://www.hulu.com/watch/120937/shark-tank-week-13#s-p1-so-i0) | 31 | [
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"body": "> I walked through the HIMYM set, which was kinda cool\n\nBRO! Why didn't you chill with the ol' barnacle?!",
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"body": "Who do you see as a front-runner for education minister in the post-apocalyptic world, once Billy Mays comes back and leads a zombie rebellion that topples the civilization?",
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What do you think is the perfect pop song? | I know redditors, by and large might be the wrong people to ask about pop music, but let's give it a shot.
What I mean by "perfect pop song" is something like "Billie Jean" or "Toxic" that's exceptionally catchy, universally appealing and well-produced - not just a little lowest-common-denominator bubblegum earworm song that gets irritating after hearing it twice.
I realize that many of you don't distinguish between the two and that's okay, whatever. | 14 | [
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"body": "\"Good Vibrations\" Beach Boys.\n\nIncredibly catchy and Brian Wilson was a musical genius and his tracks are the very highest in production quality. ",
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"body": "\"I Want It That Way\" - The Backstreet Boys; even in the era when most people over the age of 16 hated boy bands, EVERYONE knew the words to this song (despite the fact that it really made no sense) and people couldn't help but sing along when it came on the radio.",
"score": 12
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"body": "[Kiss me](http://blip.fm/profile/durablepants/blip/32278767/sixpence_none_the_richer-kiss_me) by Sixpence None the Richer",
"score": 9
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"body": "\"What a Fool Believes\" by the Doobie Brothers. Seriously. It's... so... smooth.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6PdoZaqCI",
"score": 6
},
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"body": "**Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Something**. (I think it meets your 'perfect pop song' criteria with flying colors)",
"score": 6
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"body": "Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - \"I Love Rock 'n Roll\" \nMichael Jackson - \"Billie Jean\"\nThe Rolling Stones - \"Satisfaction\"",
"score": 5
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"body": "[Ruby by Apples in Stereo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPgzpvMwL80). Not super popular I guess, but damn if it isn't the catchiest, smiliest (that should be a word) song I've ever heard.",
"score": 3
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"body": "\"Girls just want to have fun.\" by Cyndi Lauper\n\nIt puts you in a great mood, it's fun, and it's pop. I'm a guy and it still makes me smile.\n\nI also like \"Parents just don't understand\" by Dj Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince. Hysterical.\n\nThen again, I'm old.",
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I won prizes on 1vs100 live but I can't claim them. | I was in the ''mob'' on 1vs100 live. The person answering the question lost, and so each person left in the mob would receive the prize he would have one. (The prize was a certain number of microsoft points and an xbox live arcade game). I read the information afterwards, and it said something about either checking my email or xbox.com. I've since checked both, and there was nothing about my prizes there.
I then checked the rules and regulations of 1vs100 on the xbox 360 site. I read about half of the information then promptly fell asleep due to an overdose of boring legalese. The parts that I *did* read before I lapsed into unconsiousness I qualified for. I was playing on my own xbox, on my on gamertag, on my own gold membership I purchased myself. I was resident in the country the quiz was taking place in (the UK).
I want my free shit! How do I claim the prizes?
**tl;dr:**I want my free shit! How do I claim the prizes? | 4 | [
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"body": "For some reason things like this take a ridiculously long time. I did a thing about 7 weeks ago to get a gold chocobo for my avatar and finally got it about a week ago. If they take that long over a gold chocbo I can only imagine how long it will take for something of actual value.",
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Hey reddit geeks: which cars come with the best technology options for us gadget lovers? | I'm looking to get a new car soon and would like something between 10K and 50K with GPS or ability to use my iPhone navigation, touch screen interfaces are a huge plus. Any suggestions and/or features to look for?
**edit:** Yes, definately need an auxiliary audio input for the iphone too. Are there any cars that have more than audio interfaces for the iphone? That will utilize the apps or phone too? I think Ford is working on this something called *ford sync*? but I don't think it's available yet. | 5 | [
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"body": "My 2009 Fusion has Microsoft Sync. It is awesome. There is a USB port in the center console, and any Mass Storage Device can be plugged in. The car will index the music for you and you can voice control everything. I have an 80GB drive plugged in, and it has no problems with any of the music. If I say ***Play Track Symphony Of Destruction***, it plays right away.\n\nMy cell phone has bluetooth, so my car also connects to that. If I am rocking out to some music and someone calls me, it will pause the music and display the callers name on the screen. I can hit the answer button and use the car's system to have the phone call.\n\nI can also voice control my phone. For example, I can hit the button and say: ***Call Bob*** and the call will connect to Bob. It also reads me my new text messages, which is pretty awesome.\n\nI didn't get the GPS version, but that would also be fully voice controllable. It comes with a nice screen, but I haven't used it, so I can't say a whole lot about it.\n\nEDIT: I also have an AUX input in the console as well, but have yet to use it. Flash drives are so cheap and external hard drives only slightly more that I don't see a reason not to just keep a drive in the car loaded with tunes.",
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[offer] Now I know how hard it is to access journals
without subscription.. | So please feel free to ask for papers (ie 1 or 2, not an entire journal). If I have access, they will be omploaded!
(Reposted from /r/contacts. Thanks Synth3t1c ) | 25 | [
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"body": "Can I get *Coercing conservation?: The politics of state resource control*. Its available on ScienceDirect and is a great, thought provoking article. It is written by Nancy Lee Peluso. \n\nEdit: The OP has delivered and he is well-thanked! Also, you all, if given the opportunity, should read this article, as it will certainly challenge some preconceptions.",
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Time Machine with external HDD. Does it need to be dedicated? | I'm still a PC guy buy will be switching over this spring. In the mean time my bro on the other side of the planet just bought a MacBook Pro and an external 1TB HDD.
He wants to use it for Time Machine and also to store separate data. Does the HDD need to have 2 partitions in this case or can the Time Machine backup data coexist on the same partition as other data? I believe the MBP only has a 320GB HDD in it. Appreciate any advice that I can pass on to him. Thanks.
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"body": "Time machine backups will keep on eating more disk space until the disk is full, then it will remove older backups until there's enough space for the latest backup. If your only interest is to have a full backup ready when your internal HD dies, you shouldn't give time machine a backup volume that is much larger than 1.5 * the size of your internal drive.",
"score": 13
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"body": "You can keep your Time Machine backups on any disk you like, and use it for whatever else you want safely. Time Machine creates a directory at the root of your Time Machine disk called \"`Backups.backupdb`\" and within this creates another directory with the name of your computer. The `Backups.backupdb` directory is by default *only writable by the system* so to screw anything up you'd have to enter an administrator password. Other than this directory, you can use the disk however you want to; it's just another hard disk.\n\nIn case you want to copy reclaim the space used by any backups, you can also safely delete any of the directories named \"`<Time Machine Disk>/Backups.backupdb/<Computer name>/<backup date and time>`\" where `<backup date and time>` is formatted as `YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss` and it will only erase *that* backup. Note that the space regained might not equal the *size* of that directory since files that don't change between backups will still be there (this is why you can safely delete any given backup). So, in order to recoup space you'll need to go through a \"delete oldest backup, check reclaimed space, repeat\" procedure.\n\nBy doing this and keeping backups and other data on the same partition you don't actually give up any data integrity and you can use your external storage space maximally.",
"score": 13
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"body": "I use an external drive for both Windows and Time Machine backups. I just alternate which computer I plug it into and it backs up to the right partition.",
"score": 4
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"body": "No, it does not need to be a unique drive. I have a 2TB drive which I use for Time Machine and also some non-Time machine backups in another folder and it is fine.",
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I won prizes on 1vs100 live but I can't claim them. | I was in the ''mob'' on 1vs100 live. The person answering the question lost, and so each person left in the mob would receive the prize he would have won. (The prize was a certain number of microsoft points and an xbox live arcade game). I read the information afterwards, and it said something about either checking my email or xbox.com. I've since checked both, and there was nothing about my prizes there.
I then checked the rules and regulations of 1vs100 on the xbox 360 site. I read about half of the information then promptly fell asleep due to an overdose of boring legalese. The parts that I did read before I lapsed into unconsciousness I qualified for. I was playing on my own xbox, on my on gamertag, on my own gold membership I purchased myself. I was resident in the country the quiz was taking place in (the UK).
I want my free shit! How do I claim the prizes?
tl;dr:I want my free shit! How do I claim the prizes?
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"body": "I won one of those. You will receive an email at the address attached to your XBL account. It may take several weeks. I think my wait time was about six weeks.",
"score": 6
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"body": "Lucky bastard. I got into the mob once, the first time I turned on 1vs100 in the early beta stage. No prizes were even in circulation yet.",
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I haven't had cable or watched syndicated television for a number of years now, and if for some reason this comes up in conversation, people act like I am being an elitist or something. Am I crazy for thinking this? | I'm not injecting the fact that I don't watch tv needlessly into every conversation I have or bragging about it like a douche or anything. But it seems like the few times I have mentioned it, after someone I know asks me more than once if I saw a particular TV show or movie preview, I always get a really weird vibe from them. It almost seems like some people feel secretly guilty for watching too much TV or something and they project it onto me. If that makes any sense. Has anyone else experienced this? | 4 | [
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"body": "I don't own a TV, but I watch shows online (mostly via Hulu). People boggle, until I explain it. I don't have to pay for a DVR or cable subscription, I don't have to deal with as many commercials, and I watch shows on my schedule. I watch shows based on the recommendation of my friends, which means I don't suffer the crap in between. I've also changed my habits so there isn't a TV blaring bullshit in the background. I have a great home theatre setup, but it's for watching movies and entertaining.",
"score": 6
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"body": "We don't even have a TV because we don't want one. My aunt and uncle came over to see us a while back and thought that was so crazy that they now want to bring us their extra set the next time they come visit. We don't know how to explain to them that we just don't want it.",
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Hey Reddit, anyone else feel sick every morning? | Whenever I wake up I always feel nauseated to the point of puking. This has happened almost every morning of my adult life. Google doesn't find anything conclusive, and I've had doctors tell me its everything from a "hidden sinus infection" to over-production of stomach acid. Nothing has helped.
To clarify, I'm not looking for speculative medical advice! I am posting this in hopes of finding someone who has experienced the same problem, and may have found a solution that works for him/her. | 6 | [
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"body": "This happens to me, too, and has been for as long as I can remember.\n\nIt's called post-nasal drip, and it's when you basically swallow mucous all night from the inside of your face. You wake up and your belly is filled with snot, it royally sucks.\n\nQuite honestly, I use cannabis to get past it. Gets rid of the nausea and gets my appetite going. Until I've had my morning toke, any sort of breakfast (especially coffee or tea) just doesn't work out.",
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What got you started on gaming? | For me, my mom and dad played a huge part in my introduction into gaming. I was 2 or 3 yrs old when my dad brought home a NES, and I never stopped from there. I was lucky enough to have a father who was always into buying the newest systems and games (and he still is even at the age of 60).
As far as PC/FPS, my first experience was Wolfenstein 3d. Oh man was it awesome.
Concerning online gaming I *think* my first experience was with Diablo.
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"body": "My mother worked for a theater company. One of their productions used an NES and she was keeping it at home when it wasn't in use. I was allowed to hook it up to our TV and started playing Mario Bros. I liked it so much that a few years later my parents bought me a Genesis for my birthday and I've been a gamer ever since.",
"score": 7
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"body": "Dad! But this was back in the days of Atari and Commodore so we played games like [Impossible Mission](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Mission), [Nebulus](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulus_\\(computer_game\\)), [Rick Dangerous](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dangerous) and (Lol!) [Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards).",
"score": 7
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"body": "My parents tried to give me barbies for christmas.\nI played with the box then switched to my brothers playstation, which I saw as infinetly more interesting.\n\nFast forward many years and I still hadn't touched any of the traditional 'girly' gift my parents gave me for christmas and birthdays. Instead, I was playing Unreal Tournament, Doom, Duke Nukem and Diablo on the computer, and had even beaten my brothers total in-game time for all of them.\n\nNow, my parents have given up on the barbies but still have not come to terms with my dream of becoming a concept artist for games. Ah well ^^",
"score": 7
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"body": "I think I was 5 when my parents got me an NES for Christmas. Started with Mario, Duck Hunt, Tetris and Zelda, and it's all been history since then.\r\n\r\nOooooh how I miss that gold cartridge.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I actually started really late! My parents homeschooled me, and kinda banned all things fun and good, like Nickelodeon and Video games. But when I started \"real school\" in seventh grade, I met a girl who had Doom 2 and Unreal Tournament on her computer. Thats actually when I found GameFaqs.com, looking for cheat codes for Unreal Tournament!\r\n\r\nBut MY first \"system\" was a purple game boy color that I got in highschool, and the first video game I ever played on it was \"Mario and the Five Golden Coins\". It was \"Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons\" that cemented my love of video games, though. I'm STILL a huge zelda fan!",
"score": 5
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"body": "Pretty much the same was as you, OP, but with a Sega Genesis instead of an SNES, and just my dad instead of both parents. At first we had a computer, and we would play Wolfenstein 3D, the King's Quest series, Doom, Mixed-Up Mother Goose, Commander Keen together (it was very adorable). Mom didn't like video games, but she was ok with it because my Dad told her that he'd also get me learning software, so after school and after all my homework was done, I did more work on the learning games, and then I played my games. \n\nThen we got a Sega Genesis, and god I loved that little machine, but it was something to be shared with my cousins and my brother (and my geeky uncle, who got me into comic books, anime, and at least the D&D stat cards). After many, many beloved games on that (Sonic, Columns, Street Fighter, Tiny Toons, Street Fighter), my household got the original Playstation, and it's been constant gaming since. The only thing I really missed out on was the SNES because nobody in my family had it (our other cousins had the N64, the original XBox, the Gamecube, so we weren't in want for that). At least there are emulators that are bringing me back up to speed.\n\nFor online experience, Maple Story was my first. I'm told it's like Diablo, but colorful and adorable.",
"score": 4
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"body": "I used to watch my brother play Super Mario Brothers on our SNES *all* the time, and soon after he and I started playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles Through Time together. Those were the days...",
"score": 3
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"body": "My parents really don't like video games, so the most I was able to play in my childhood were educational games, like \"Putt-Putt\" and \"Zoombinis\". When I finally got a Game Boy, the two games I had were Pokemon Blue and Super Mario Land. Never got to finish Super Mario Land, as my parents would routinely confiscate my brother's and my Game Boys so we could earn them back.\n\nWhen my brother was a bit older, all his friends were playing CS and Half-Life, so that got him into FPS gaming. My friends played mmos, a \"free\" Korean one, so I got sucked into that, though I was never really dedicated enough for mmorpgs (ie: I sucked haha). :) FPS games were something I always wanted to try, but I was afraid I'd suck, as my only experiences were being used as CS target practice by my brother when he was bored. Finally, last summer, I got into TF2 and L4D, and the rest is history! :D",
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How often do you brush your teeth? Is it normal not to? | For most of my life, I thought that pretty much everyone brushed their teeth at least once or twice a day, but as I've been growing older and staying with other people more often, I'm beginning to think that was a misconception.
When I was 18, and stayed with my then boyfriend for a week, I noticed that he only brushed his teeth once during the entire week - and I'm pretty sure I didn't just miss it; we had slept in the same bed, got up together, showered together, used the toilet without bothering to close the door, dressed together, left together... I was honestly somewhat disgusted. Later, I told my sister, and she agreed that it was gross and strange.
But the same sort of thing happened with my next boyfriend, whom I stayed with for a total of almost three months during the course of our relationship. From what I can remember, he only brushed his teeth four or five times while I was there.
I could simply assume that this was due to boys being boys, and not caring about their hygiene, but my female friend recently told me that she doesn't brush her teeth often, either.
Is this actually what most people do?
[edit: spelling] | 35 | [
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"body": "I think your choice of men is lacking, sorry to say. That's just f'n gross.\n\nI'm male, and have always brushed my teeth *at least* 2 times a day. I think that I'm normal, in that capacity anyway.\n\nIf you don't take care of your mouth, chances are that you don't take care of the rest of your self. Your boyfriends *had* to have had bad breath, at least on occasion...",
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"body": "I usually only brush in the morning. Mostly because my evening schedule is so varied I find it hard to get in habit. Then I forget",
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"body": "Wow this thread is overwhelmed by brushing maniacs. Maybe the title brought 'em in? (Hi) In any case it's hard posting being the voice of dissent, especially when people are having visceral \"eww\" and \"gross\" reactions.\n\n\nBut I'll bite anyway: I brush when my teeth feel dirty. Sometimes this ends up being right after meals, but sometimes I go quite some time. Afaik bad breath comes from your tongue more than your teeth, and I brush that more often.\n\n\nHow can I do this? Don't know what to tell you. I used to ask my wife periodically if my breath smelled bad and it doesn't. I visit the dentist regularly and aside from the slightly weak gums, for years and years now I've had no cavities and they always seem surprised at how clean my teeth are. \n\n\nWhat can I say, different people are... different? No real surprise there. Hope this helps some of you understand the \"other side.\"",
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"body": "Mao Zedong never brushed his teeth, and they became green when he became old. He also became toothless later in life. His idea was that 'tigers never brush their teeth, thus neither need I to do.' \n\nhttp://lisawallerrogers.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/mao-had-dragon-breath/\n\nSo, if you enjoy the idea, go for it.",
"score": 13
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"body": "I'm surprised by the amount of 2x per day brushers that are posting. I have had similar experience to the OP. Once a week is a bit extreme, but most people that I've been around brush once per day and a second if it happens to be convenient.",
"score": 12
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"body": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8\n\nBrush yo teeth! Brush yo teeth! Brush you goddamn teeth!\n\n(also known as \"read a book! read a book! Read a mothafuckin book!\")",
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"body": "\"Plaque is a figment of the liberal media and the dental industry to scare you into buying \nuseless appliances and pastes. Now, I've read the arguments on both sides, and I haven't \nfound any evidence yet to support the need to brush your teeth. Ever\" \n",
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"body": "People must have naturally stronger or weaker teeth. I brush and floss 2x a day EVERY day and I avoid soda and I STILL get cavities about once every two years. Getting pretty frustrating.\n\nI grew up with well water and no fluoride. That might be part of it",
"score": 3
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"body": "I don't brush my teeth regularly at all, and I drink lots of soda. I haven't had a single cavity since losing my baby teeth and my last checkup (in September) ended with a. Bill of clean dental health.",
"score": 3
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"body": "What the hell?\n\nPeople that don't brush drive me nuts. My father was a dentist, and we used to give out candy *and a new toothbrush* every Halloween. I do hope we made a difference.\n\nBrush your teeth once a day. More is cool, but please, at least once a day.\n\n**More important than brushing twice or more a day is flossing. If you can brush once a day + floss, you are golden.** Even if its just once a week, even if its just whenever you think of it, even if you hate holding floss so you buy those little plastic floss holder things. Floss!\n\n(In fact, if you had to pick between just brushing or just flossing, flossing would be preferable.)",
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Brainstorm ideas for keeping people active inside /r/gamingclub | So PateraSilk brought up an interesting point, namely if we only ever have two threads a month (one to choose a game and one to discuss) it will be difficult to keep people interested and active, so let's brainstorm some ideas to keep things fresh in gamingclub. Ideas that have been brought up so far:
- splitting into multiple games per month based on system so we don't alienate an entire group (this will be difficult to do before we have a larger reader base)
- Suggesting similar games to picked games of the month to play if you enjoyed it and general discussion topics on them
- Having multiple games picked per month that can be played/discussed if you have the time (although this means if a game gets picked as a secondary choice one month it may not get chosen as a primary pick and get lost in the noise)
Anyone have any other suggestions? | 3 | [
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"body": "Why would there have to be only one discussion for a game? For that matter why does this club have to be like a movie or book club where we finish the game and talk about it?\n\nHow about we talk about it, post about it and altogether play together? Post a video of your perfect playthrough of a level, post your favorite screenshot, ask for tips, get suggestions for mods, talk about bosses, levels all while playing the game. If we only discuss games after they're done, this subreddit will be dead for much of the month. A subreddit that's dead for 20 days of a month won't prosper. Movie or book clubs are daily or weekly schedules, so it's not a big deal. \n\nBasically if we use the same format as a book club for this one, it'll fail.\n\nEdit: Changed the first sentence.",
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Can someone summarize the sequels to "Rendezvous with Rama"? | I absolutely loved the original book, in fact it's one of my all-time favourite works of science fiction. However, try as I might, I just can't get through the horrible sequels by Gentry Lee. Miniature Shakespearean robots? Giant alien birds and octo-spiders? A 70 year old guy marrying a twelve year old girl, and the girl's mother being okay with it? A dozen nuclear-tipped missiles being foiled by a layer of foam that magically appears out of nowhere?
I got to a point, I think it's in *Garden of Rama*, where the human family is being held in the giant alien facility, and for some reason there's a humanoid robot with the head of an eagle who is serving/supervising the humans. Okay, let's just go with it. So there's a conversation where the humans are asked what they'd like for breakfast and the kids ask for pancakes, and the aliens are like, "okay, we have several kinds of pancakes, we have buttermilk, we have blah blah blah", and all I can think of is how in the hell does an alien race that has never set foot on Earth know how to make pancakes? Even if they had the recipe they wouldn't have any of the ingredients! I kept reading for a while after that but the story went off into the weeds with some long, incredibly boring digression about some guy in Japan and his long-lost love interest. There was none of the punch or suspense or realism that Clarke so wonderfully delivered in the first book.
So anyway, I'm curious enough to still want to know how it all ends, but not curious enough to actually sit through Gentry Lee's horrible writing style, so can someone who has read the books please just give me the cliff notes version? Also, if there's someone out there who enjoyed the sequels, could you explain what you liked about them? The first book largely sacrificed character development and instead focused on Rama itself, with the sociological and scientific impact that such a discovery would have on Earth. Gentry Lee instead chooses to focus on character minutiae which are neither interesting nor terribly relevant. There are entire chapters, for example, dedicated to flashbacks of Nicole's past love affairs and childhood experiences, and meanwhile **there's a giant mysterious cylinder floating through space**. Which would you focus on if you were writing the story?
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"body": "FOR GOD'S SAKE, SAVE YOURSELF and bail on those books right now. I am always very reluctant for anyone to destroy a book, but in the case of the Rama sequels, i consider it justified. Just toss them in the trash. In 30+ years of reading science fiction, they stand out in my mind as probably the single worst series ever. Maybe it was because the expectations for them were so high, and they fell so short, but still.\n\nAbout a year ago, we had another similar thread. This was my response. Its still as relevant:\n\nThe first Rama book was wonderful, thoughtful and inventive. The first sequel was okay. The others were just wretched. Bad ideas, stupidity plots (where characters must act stupid in order for the plot to move the way it does), a main character that became more and more of a Mary Sue as the plot went along. Its been more than a decade since I read them and their intellectual rot still stands out in my memory.\n\nIn fact, I'll spoil the books for you, at least what I can remember, so you will have no desire to read them and can save yourself many wasted hours of plowing through them.\n\n**SPOILERS** (for anyone who cares--also spoils BSG a little)\n\nRama II: new Rama craft enters solar system 50 years later, UN sends much better outfitted expedition to investigate. Bullshit happens, three astronauts become stranded on Rama as it leaves for deep space.\n\nGarden of Rama: Mary Sue the heroine has a bunch of kids with fellow stranded astornauts. Rama loops back into solar system after being refitted to ask for more human 'samples' for a starter colony. The genius leaders on Earth, in one of the the best stupidity plot contrivances ever, sends 2000 dangerous convicts to represent humanity to a super-advanced alien race. Everyone is for some reason shocked when they cause trouble and almost destroy the spaceship.\n\nRama Revealed: Mary Sue and family runs away to live with aliens while the Rama robots spank the convicts and get them to behave. The ship docks with a megastation, and we get the big reveal: the Rama ships are emissaries of God. Seriously. (They beat BSG to this crappy ending by 15+ years) Mary Sue dies. The end.\n\nNow we shall never mention these books again.",
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"body": "Painfully I remember the sequels now thanks to these posts. Sigh, I thought I'd erased that from my memory.",
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"body": "That's easy: they don't exist. They never did. There is only one *Rama* book, and that's all you need to know.",
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"body": "Aliens work for God, who is using them to measure Creation, and tweaking each Big Bang until he gets it right.",
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"body": "To me, the sequels sound like Clarke wanted to get away from his dry, geekish technical writing, and get more like Asimov’s stories where the people and their lives, rather than the technology, occupy the foreground of the story.\n\nOf course, übergeek/engineer Clarke wasn’t able to do so, so he asked another writer to write it.",
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"body": "Wikipedia has some brief plot summaries:\n\n[Rama II](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_II_%28novel%29)\n\n[The Garden of Rama](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Rama)\n\n[Rama Revealed](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama_Revealed) \n\n\nI agree with you about the sequels, except that you apparently managed to get a lot farther than I did. I was unable to get through Rama II.",
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"body": "I like all of these books. Once I read the Gentry Lee contributed sequels I read the first book. I was pleased. Everyone whom I've talked to about these books have said they hated them.",
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"body": "You're right; the series just gets more and more off-topic as it goes on. As I recall, in the fifth book, the eagle-head guy takes them all to Hawaii, and they get chased all over the island in wacky adventures. *Hawaii Rama*, I think it was called. That was really the turning point, as far as I'm concerned. The sixth book, *Die Hard, Rama*, I found confusing most of the way through. John McCain kept popping up and trying to kick everyone's ass -- in my opinion, a how-to for how *not* to do a crossover book. Number seven, *Rama Oaxaca* was a cookbook (decent recipes), and number eight, *Rama Really Revealed*, was a skinmag for furries and shit. No, you're better off quitting after the first one.",
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Are you an expert on anything? | I know a decent amount about lots of things - philosophy, politics, economics, games, psychology, movies, computers, football - but I don't really consider myself an expert on anything.
Are you an expert on something, either in your own mind or in the minds of others? | 42 | [
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"body": "I am an expert in 19th century American History, my specific field of interest is American Popular culture in the Gilded Age (1870-1900), namely traveling Wild West shows, circuses, and World Expositions. ",
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"body": "I can't say I'm an expert at quoting retarded commercials... but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night.",
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"body": "I am a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I am not an expert at all but I used to be pretty good at the sparring. I won the world championships when I was 14 and I won most of my national and international compitions for about a 4 year period. But I got injured, no more fighting for me :(",
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"body": "Around other Americans, I'm an expert on Irish culture and history. Around other women, I'm an expert on comics. Around other people who didn't study it themselves, I'm an expert in Latin. Really, it's all relative.",
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"body": "I know enough about beer brewing to seem like an expert to most people, since they know very little. I also know enough to know that I am far from a real expert.",
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"body": "You can only remain an expert on something (once you reach the state to start with) so long as you stay on top of the subject and continue participating in it, on a regular basis. Once the regular participation stops, your expert qualifications slowly slip away. From this perspective, I was once an expert on US and world trivia (read most of a Worldbook Encyclopedia set before the age of 12; my parents should have put me on TV's Jeopardy game show back then), collectible comics from 1960 through the 1970s, 1900-1970s science fiction and fantasy novels (read at least 1000 of them by college), [1969/1970 Ford Mustangs](http://www.1969-1970-ford-mustang-mach-one-boss-shelby-classic.com/), [supercar modifications on the cheap](http://www.jmooneyham.com/poor-mans-supercar.html), T-shirt airbrushing, [survival techniques](http://www.jmooneyham.com/poor.html), [experimental DIY aircraft](http://www.jmooneyham.com/poor-mans-airship.html), cutting edge computer technologies, and various other things over time. I can't claim to be a full-fledged expert today on any of those things specifically listed, as I've now forgotten much, plus technologies have changed to make lots of old knowledge now obsolete, etc., etc.",
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"body": "I am an expert on 'Intelligent Transportation Systems', 'Advanced Public Transportation Systems', 'The Theatre of the Absurd', and American literature in the first half of the 20th Century. ",
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"body": "Fiddle. I've played violin for almost 44 years, the last 30 have been strictly fiddle: bluegrass, celtic, klezmer, jazz, rock, world beat, new age, you name it. I also have been teaching it since 1986. I've toured the world performing for audiences as much as 7,000 (Egypt) and as few as a couple dozen here at home. I wouldn't call myself an expert, but I've been called a \"Master Fiddler\"",
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"body": "Umm...You know when I really think about it, no. Not a thing.\r\n \r\nI'm a jack of all trades and a master of none like yourself. We should hang out.",
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"body": "It's the internet, everyone is an expert on EVERYTHING :) \r\n\r\nSeriously though, I'd say I'm an expert with regard to computers. \r\n\r\nI'm close to being there with building codes. I'm probably already there with estimating. \r\n\r\nI'd say there are many things that I have no clue about though. Sometimes I think experts should be measured by how they react to what they don't know, rather than what they know. :)",
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"body": "I am a self-styled expert in progressive rock music, in the sense that I study the artists and the genre (I can't play most of it because it's too hard...)",
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"body": "I'm one of comparatively few people into *Historical European Martial Arts*, in particular the longsword. Even if there are hundreds or probably thousands of people worldwide who are better than me and could take me apart in a fight, I still know more about it than the vast majority of the world's population.",
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The pill and how it's a scapegoat for not wanting to have sex with your partner. | **SECOND EDIT** -- This is a response to the commentators and posters of this subreddit using birth control as a scape goat. This is not an attempt to refute that there are sexual side effects to birth control pills. My claim here is that the relationship advice given to posts in this sub-reddit should not get behind the "IT MUST BE THE PILL" bandwagon every time there is a question about a females libido. **AGAIN THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT TO REFUTE THE SEXUAL SIDE EFFECTS OF BIRTH CONTROL BUT AN ATTEMPT TO SHOW THAT YOU SHOULD NOT DISREGARD OTHER FACTORS IF YOU HAVE SEXUAL TENSION IN YOUR RELATIONSHIP**
I am not a doctor, I am not a Pharmacist, and I have no formal training in medicine or psychology at all.
There, I threw up my disclaimer, lets proceed.
I can't believe how often commentators immediately blame "the pill" for a lack of sexual desire and or libido. There are lots of women who are on "the pill" who have orgasms, enjoy sex, and want to have sex. If you are finding that you aren't sexually attracted to your partner, or that you aren't wanting to have sex in general, you should examine more than just "the pill" scapegoat.
Far too often women and men will make excuses for sexual desire tensions and lump all that into the pill. Here's a fact, no one hates to orgasm.
If you think the pill is to blame, then most likely the problem isn't the pill, the problem is you. This isn't just for women, men use this excuse to convince themselves that the problem does not lie within themselves, but must have something to do with an outside factor.
Here's the deal, before you go and try to change your libido overnight by using a different form of birth control ... maybe you should try talking to your partner.
Honesty is the best policy in these situations. Don't attack each other, don't judge or blow things out of proportion, but do be open and honest. The problem with your libido is 99% in your head. There is something other than "the pill" that is causing sexual tension. You can resent your partner, you can be unhappy with your partner, you can be less attracted to their sameness.
These aren't bad things in the greater picture of your relationship. These are milestones you can work on. If you want to change the amount of sex you have with your partner, then you need to change something about yourself.
The only way to identify what that something is, is to be honest with your partner, communicate, and communicate. Communication is by far the biggest factor in your desire to have sex. You're unhappy about the level and your partner is unhappy about something else.
It may not have anything to do with your partner, it may be that your depressed or some other factor. But that's the key, is that you have a partner, you have someone who should be more than someone you have sex with.
Sex is an important part to a romantic relationship, but there are many other things that are important as well. They are different for everyone, which is why you need to communicate with your partner.
You're not broken, and a pill hasn't stolen something from you. You just need to get whatever got you into the slump, to be taken care of.
Learn to relax, learn to be happy, and learn to sympathize with your partner.
If that doesn't work, then by all means, change your birth control pill. Just don't immediately jump to that scapegoat.
**EDIT** -- Okay, let me get one thing straight, I am saying that "the pill" can be a scapegoat to admitting to a bigger problem.
I AM **NOT** Saying that "the pill" doesn't have sexual side effects.
I **AM** Saying that instead of saying "oh the problem must be 'the pill'" ... maybe a little more soul searching is needed? | 19 | [
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"body": "I think you're missing the point. The pill is (supposedly) to blame at least a notable fraction of the time. Given that it's almost trivially easy to \"test\" that hypothesis, why not do that and see if it fixes the problem? Then move on to the more difficult and labor intensive stuff.\n\nIf my computer doesn't boot up one day, I don't immediately crack the case open and whip out my voltmeter. I first check to see if it's plugged in.",
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"body": "bullshit.\n\nhormones can severely fuck with some women. not all, but a sizable amount. these hormones can make women gain weight (which can then be hard to lose), have headaches, make women irritable and depressed, and it can affect the libido. considering that hormonal birth control essentially tricks the body into thinking it is pregnant, this shouldn't be surprising.\n\nloss of libido is a *known side effect* of some birth control. doctors know this. it is *not* just in women's heads.",
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"body": "I agree. It's just like the people who claim to be deathly allergic to nuts. I'm not a doctor, but I see people eat nuts all the time. Man up, Nancy!",
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"body": "Let's see then, you start by pointing out the kinds of profession that would grant you legitimacy in your claims. But point at that you belong to none of those, then you go on a long winded rant about saying nothing of interest or use. While ignoring actual research that has been done on the subject. Awesome. Thanks so much for that.\n\nSlash, you really wanna test your bullshit theory out? Just try to get ahold of some SSRI based antidepressants, take them for about three days and whack off (cuz I can't imagine anyone wanting to help you, but if someone will, props to you.) And see how much more difficult achieving orgasm becomes.... BECAUSE of this medication and how it interacts with your body.",
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"body": "All women are different. Because woman A has a healthy sex drive on the pill, that doesn't say shit about woman B; neither does the fact that the pill _increases_ drive for woman C.\n\nIn short:\n\n>I am not a doctor, I am not a Pharmacist, and I have no formal training in medicine or psychology at all.\n\nQED",
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"body": "Let us see; which is easier? Switching birth control? Or doing all that other stuff?\n\nSwitching birth control! Gee, maybe we should try the easiest thing first, amiright?",
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"body": "Yeah, [I call bullshit](http://www.reddit.com/r/ICallBullshit/comments/aq47c/those_evil_womenz_theyre_just_lying_about_the/).",
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"body": "You don't understand. I've gone through this twice, and while that is by no means a legitimate study, here's what you're missing. When a girl goes on the pill after they've been dating you, hormones/libido change, and they might become unattracted to you. Generally if a girl is on before you were dating her, you're fine. It's when they start while you are dating her. Same thing happens if they stop taking it while dating you, although usually to a lesser degree. Fuck birth control, but I hate the rubbers, can't feel a damn thing.",
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"body": "To put it simply, you're an idiot.\n\nThere is a well understood chemical/biological process for how the pill can kill libido.\n\nIt has also been observed by A LOT of people.\n\nIn personal experience, it has effects that would be pretty hard to just blame on yourself. Gradually over time, a gf that was on the pill went from sex maniac to no sex drive. Sure, I could blame that on myself, but she also went from masturbating regularly to hardly ever, from cumming after a few minutes of stimulation to needing over half an hour, from dripping wet to incapable of going beyond slightly moist.\n\nThis same girl, within a month of stopping the pill was back to her old self again, even though nothing had changed in the relationship\n\nI don't think anybody's FIRST reaction to sexual problems is \"Well it must be your pill.\" Of course people try to spice things up, and talk about it first. But it is a very important factor that's really worth looking into.\n\nIf anything people don't look at it enough.\n\nI know a lot of couples that had this problem, and never even tried changing the pill.",
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"body": "Disagree with everything except the communication.\n\nMy understanding of it is that the sex drive is just not there anymore. Like when somebody takes depression medication, they just don't feel anything. \n\nIt's probably a lot more to do with the relationship hormones than anything. It's not just magic that makes people go from fucking like rabbits to having less sex when they get older. It's because of hormones. You become more comfortable. ",
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"body": "Holy shit... I never thought of this until now, but since I've been off the pill I HAVE been enjoying sex a lot more. Interesting. Never made the connection - **if there is one.** \r\n\r\nThere are many factors which could possibly be in play here, but I was planning on getting back on it next month or so, I'll have to keep track of this and see if there's anything to the theory in my case....",
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"body": "Yeah this is the incorrect place for this piece of misguided rant, but even though you say you're offering guidance, this area is for people to ask questions in threads and provide advice in the comments.. Not random advice threads. Check out the sidebar. You say you're presenting advice for people and there's a place for that.\n\n>Check out a [collection of the best relationship advice from this subreddit for general advice](http://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/9jnl5/lets_make_a_thread_of_our_best_general/). **Please add your own general advice there, rather than making a new thread**.",
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"body": "Pfft, i don't know about you, but I get all of my medical advice from reddit, and of the course the Church of Scientology. I don't throw my lot in with MDs! ",
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"body": ">I AM Saying that instead of saying \"oh the problem must be 'the pill'\" ... maybe a little more soul searching is needed?\n\nEh... maybe a little pulling your head out of your butt is needed.\n\n>Here's the deal, before you go and try to change your libido overnight by using a different form of birth control ... maybe you should try talking to your partner.\n\nI am past the age of the pill now, but there would be times that I would be on a pill and my body chemistry would change, I would start spotting all month long and would need to change the birth control pill I was on. I would start a new one, and would suffer terrible cramping. I would change to another one, and suffer loss of sex drive. But I realized that I had lost my sex drive, and I knew that my current behavior was not normal for me - so I went to my obgyn and told them the problem I was having, and she changed me to one that had testosterone in it... and my sex drive was restored. Down side of that, I started suffering terrible rages, and had been known to do things like throw hammers at people that pissed me off. Put more than one hole in a wall that way. So they put me on a lighter dosage, but then... I hit an age that between my age and smoking, I could no longer take the pill.\n\nBut I do feel that you are a little out of line thinking that a person shouldn't do what their doctor says without talking to the male first. Her health comes first - boyfriends come and go, but she only has one life.",
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"body": "I can understand where you are coming from but I think you are a little overconfident in your assumptions... Sure, many couples have sexual issues that may have nothing to do with the pill but are instead rooted within a deeper issue. That said, when a product is engineered specifically to offeset hormones and ovulation, there are some major mood/libido changes... I dated a girl that changed BCs about 5 times over the course of our relationship (6 years)... The interesting thing was that you could see changes from one BC to the gap between and then the next in both mood, sleep patterns and sex life... If she wasnt on any BC then it was likely that she was on top of me or waiting in ambush... Some BCs caused her to want sex once a week and one had her back to every day... \n\nBCs are crazy and I am happier than a SoB that I don't have to take anything that can completely alter my mood and sex drive.... Just put on some rubber and its all kosher...",
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"body": "I think any person who uses the pill as a scape goat knows what they're doing... people who blame the pill do so because they DON'T think anything else is wrong... \n\nI would honestly blame the pill last, after going, \"wtf? Why do I not want it?\" for long enough. ",
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"body": "This is a bunch of bullshit. I am a woman and I love sex, more than half the men I know. I have tried tons of different birth controls, usually for no longer than 2 months, every single one of them completely zaps my desire to have sex, to the point where the thought of sex makes me sick, I want nothing to do with it. I get off the pill and I'm back to my horny self. It's not a scapegoat, it's a legitimate problem that many woman face if they try to go on birth control.",
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