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[ { "body": "Steel framed .38, or .357 revolver loaded with .38s.\n\nEverybody's going to recommend their favorite semi autos, but I've seen too many people on the range either forget the safety or wrap their thumb behind the slide to go that route. If she ever has to use it, she's going to be under stress, and she may not have touched the gun in the last year. She'll be doing good to find the trigger.\n\nBesides that, women generally find the old-school look of revolvers less intimidating, and they draw fewer legal restrictions. There was some research a while back showing that jurors are harder on women who use \"tactical\" looking weapons than traditional models. Nobody's going to prosecute a little old lady who took a shot at a bad guy with her .38.\n\nThe only downside is that the long trigger pull can be a problem. But full-sized revolvers will almost always have a hammer she can cock. I know you're not supposed to do that, but this is mom. The first priority is to get her a gun that she can used when she's scared out of her wits. If she's got to cheat a little, she can cheat. She's never going to be a raging combat god anyway. I just want her to have a gun that she *absolutely* knows how to use well enough to get a couple of shots off in the general direction of the bad guy. Anything beyond that is a bonus. Anything that might *prevent* her from getting *at least* that is totally unacceptable.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Things to keep in mind:\n\n* Accessibility\n* Usability \n\nIf she can't access it readily that's a problem. If she can access it but she is untrained on it...that's also a problem. Having a gun for defensive uses is rather worthless unless you're capable of using it properly. Check if she even has the arm strength to rack a slide and clear a malfunction on a pistol. Those \"petite\" 380 auto pistols generally have rather strong recoil springs and the recoil itself is nothing to scoff at with a light frame gun.\n\n\nPersonally my mother can't even rack the slide on an automatic and thus I've taught her how to use a small revolver. A S&W Model 10 has enough of its own heft to absorb recoil and none of the controls require much strength at all to operate. Too many know-nothing gun store owners and significant others assume some 115 lb woman...who has little to no firearm experience...will easily manipulate the tiny ass slide of a Ruger LCP or even manage to cycle the ungodly strong recoil spring on the Walther PPK. \n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Whatever gun anyone else recommends, make sure to take her to a store, or, better yet, a shooting range that rents them out, and have her get a good feel for the firearm.\n\nThat being said, if her hands are pretty small, I would look into the following:\n\n* Sig Sauer P238. I shot this handgun and it feels great. \n* Officer-size 1911. If you want to skimp on money, RIA. Otherwise, find a Colt, Springfield, STI, or Kimber.\n* Glock 26 with the Pearce grip finger extensions. This is a double-stacker so the grip is a bit fatter.\n\nIn any case, make damn sure that your mother becomes PROFICIENT with the weapon. That means routine practice, and maybe even stress drills to improve shooting under duress. Don't let your mom be the idiot in my CCW class who couldn't hit paper on a B-27 silhouette target at 7 yards with a Sig P238 with a CrimsonTrace lasergrip attached to it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "One time in NYC I was kicked out of a store owned by a black man because I was white...\n\nTrue story, nobody ever talks about racism in that way.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You should consider stretching as a serious, permanent modification, no matter what size you decide to stop at. I think it would be in your best interest to wait and respect what your mother asks if you. Your earlobes aren't doing anywhere, and waiting will give you the time to research and educate yourself as much as you can as well as give you time to think about how this may affect future plans and if you really want them.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "If your mother can tell you that you're too young. You're too young.\n\nAs for not wanting them when you're older. It's a possibility.\n\nThere is a point of no return. It might be any size depending on so many factors. Stretching is pretty much permanently.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "No, Lydia doesn't know anyone. The hitman from before was a crew member, what other hitmen does she know? She is an office flunky who was in an illicit side business. ", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I don't know if it's obvious, but it's definitely possible. It will depend, I think, on which needs killing first. Either way, both will clearly kill the other without much compunction.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "> He ALSO ALWAYS fucking bitches about how we don't do anything and how we need to keep the place in better shape\n\nI read this as \n\n\"He is also always fucking bitches about how we don't do anything\".\n\n\nThat would be pretty interesting. If you fucked someone every time you complained? lol.\n\n\nUnfortunately, I have no serious commentary to offer here. Just an amusing play on words.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "There's an incredible amount of detail in that costume. From tho staff to the boots to the whites only contacts. Great job to Lyz and thanks for posting. \n\n", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Moving programs from HDD to HDD especially with a new OS 99% of the time wont work. They need their registry entries to run properly.\n\nBest option is to reinstall\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Similar yet different - found two women online, one was a milf in the sense that she had twins at 22 but was my age (then 24), the other one was just an OWILF, 14 years my senior but with no kids.\n\nAdvice - don't get too attached and keep thinking with your dick, you'll have a wonderfull time.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Let someone know where you'll be (not necessarily what you're doing) you don't want it to end up like a Red State situation.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Well, personally I think the deaths are part of the fun, you two might end up embracing them as much as the bulk of the community here has as well. They aren't so bad after awhile. :)\n\nRegarding getting to the Mun, your first goal should be putting a rocket in orbit then go to the Mun and Minimus from there. [This video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCZRF9o8ytc) is awesome for orbital basics. That uploader also has a couple of videos about rendezvous encounters, but those are quite a bit more complex.\n\nOnce you've mastered orbit, [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wlhz7s4J78) is another good video, also from the same uploader, about adventuring to the Mun.\n\nRegarding other planets, those are coming in 0.17. For now, we only have Kerbin and it's two moons, Mun and Minimus.\n\nEDIT: Also, don't play with mods at first. Get the basics of the game without them before worrying about mods.", "score": 23 }, { "body": "I know, right? I picked it up on a whim last night. So far? hundreds of dead Kerbanauts, Kerbanauts stranded all over the world, one vehicle orbiting Kerban with no fuel what so ever, and one vehicle... orbiting the sun. : (\n\nAll in all, wonderful game, in the fullest tradition of Dwarven Fun. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "> with as few horrible deaths as possible.\n\nYou have a break a few eggs to make an omelette. I think having your first 10 iterations of a rocket blow up on the pad is part of the game.\n\nI had read that in 0.17 they were looking to beef up the tutorial elements of the game, and also to put in a few sample rockets.\n\nMy advice: Start small. Just a few fuel tanks and a rocket. See how high you can get. Find the max number of tanks you can have before you don't get any higher. Then, try working with decouplers and stages. See how high you can go. For the first few iterations, just turn on SAS (autopilot to keep you pointed in the same direction) and leave it on ('T' key). You'll pretty much go straight up, as long as the rocket isn't unbalanced.\n\nAfter you've made a rocket that can get past the Mun's orbit going straight out, try getting it into Kerbal orbit. At that point you might want to add RCS fuel and RCS thrusters to your rocket. They're little jets that allow you to maneuver outside the atmosphere (Turn them on/off with the 'R' key). Your command module has a little built-in maneuverability, and many of the rocket engines will also allow you to steer (while they're running).\n\nYou'll do most of your piloting using the \"artificial horizon\", so you kind of have to explain how that works to him. Then, you can try getting into orbit. The easiest way I've found is to go straight up till you leave the lower atmosphere (the light blue section on the atmosphere indicator), then tilt down 45deg in some direction (I prefer East). Switch to the map view, and look at your tragectory. When the apoapsis mark is at about 100,000 meters, switch back to your rocket and throttle down to almost nothing (just a little bit of thrust for control). Tilt down to 0deg (the horizon) in the same direction (I prefer East), and then wait till you're close to the apoapsis on your map indicator, then let loose again. Your trajectory will start to become a legit orbit. Once it's a ring around the planet, cut the engines.\n\nNext step is to learn how to adjust your orbit (make it more circular, make it wider, tilt it in different directions). These aren't really difficult to do, and the key is making the adjustments when you're at the periapsis/apoapsis. [This](http://i.imgur.com/DruUv.png) reference (made by somebody awesome, from [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/xtegh/updated_orbital_mechanics_reference_sheets/) post) gives some simple instructions for the different orbital manuevers.\n\nThe step after that: extending your orbit to the moon. You'll know when you'll hit the mun's sphere of influence, because it'll indicate it on your map.\n\nNext step: Make your mun orbit nice and pretty using the same techniques you already know.\n\nFinal step: Land. If you're in an orbit around the Mun, it's super simple. There are two yellow indicators on your artificial horizon. One shows the direction you are traveling, and the other shows the opposite direction. Keep yourself pointed at the \"opposite\" (retrograde) marker and engage the thrusters, moderately, until you've landed. If you keep watching that marker, and stay pointed at it, you will land pretty much perfectly vertical. Just keep watching your speed, and try to keep it below 20m/s for most of your descent. You want to slow to around 7-10m/s for the last few thousand meters (unless you're a hotshot).\n\nBonus: You crash on the mun or your rocket tips over. Meh, just try again. I decided to give [my lander](http://i.imgur.com/chAtE.png) (this one is pretty big, and will be traveling to Minmus, before going home) a few extra landing struts, so that landing in any orientation is fine.\n\nI am an adult of reasonable intelligence and moderate flight sim skill. I have blown up at least 100 rockets (most never got to space), and I crashed into the surface of the Mun 3 times before landing. Failure is part of the fun. :D\n", "score": 6 } ]

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[ { "body": "i can see this being one of those things where I would keep looking at the wrong side of the screen for weeks after haha", "score": 212 }, { "body": "Just gonna check real quick so no one is missing on the map .... \"Suck me retard fucker i hate you!! uninstall plz\"", "score": 104 }, { "body": "I downloaded a countdown clock timer that makes a beep every 10 seconds and it's programming me into checking the mini map every 10 seconds :)", "score": 29 }, { "body": "I'm a fan of playing Heimerdinger zoomed in all the way with the screen locked to practice map awareness.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "I tried this, and it helped me a bit with my map awareness (I did it originally because I previously played sc2) but the main problem I found with this (and possibly the reason it's bottom right as well), is that when you're moving, I found it *a lot* more likely to hit the minimap trying to run away, than when it's on the right.\n\nex: playing on purple side at mid you're likely to hit it when moving into mid, playing mid, bot, or top on blue side you're likely to hit it while running back to your turret, and so on, while when it's on the right side you're only really likely to hit it when you're running through the jungle or down river.\n\n*edit* I thought you were saying to reverse your minimap (have it on the left side), so this post is pretty much meaningless now, but I'll leave it as my argument against reversing the HUD.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Rather than moving the chat to the right, where it would block the bottom of the scoreboard if I tried to look at it while someone was chatting away, I instead moved the minimap itself to the left, where I'm used to it being anyways because I came over from Warcraft III, DotA, and Starcraft/Starcraft II.\n\nOf course, the principle still remains the same, having the chat within the same vicinity of the map helps you look at it whenever someone opens their mouth, especially in lower elo levels where smack talk and insults are dropped more often than Sight Wards.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "A piece of advice I developed for teaching new players the importance of both CS and the minimap is to look down at your minimap when you go for a last hit each time. Learn to go for the last hit then back off immediately (under most circumstances) and you can use all of that time to look at the minimap instead of watching your character's attack animation.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "When I saw \"improve\" and \"without too much effort\" together in one sentence, I thought - impossibru.\n\nBut holy shit, I've actually been thinking lately about moving the minimap to the left side like Alex Ich does, as my head/brain generally concentrates easier / moves to the left side.\n\nLol, thank you.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "This reminds me of a blog on GameRiot from a few years back. The website has been offline for a while so I can't link it but it was about psychology behind your UI, using a theory about which side of the brain is good at which tasks and changing your UI accordingly. Was a pretty interesting read and I think it improved my play by a bit.\n\nedit: found this on google - http://stormspire.net/off-topic/2544-psychology-behind-your-ui.html not as informative as the blogpost but it's just as interesting", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have my mini-map on the Left side and my chat on right :) It's just a thing of actually being able to realize several things at once, for someone who has to last hit: Are there any creeps low HP? Am I in a dangerous spot? Is my support being agressive? If those questions are all No's you can peek at the minimap.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I own 2 non-hd fixed 10x SS scopes. One is on my AR-10(t) the other on my 700. They have performed wonderfully for me. Now I don't know what your intended use is, so I can't say if they'll fit the bill for you, but I've consistently run both clean out to 1000yds on 20x40\" steel targets. They've taken a few bumps & still maintain zero. They're nice and clear and have even performed in low ligh. On one of them the the detents on the windage & elevation are a bit mushy but still consistent. For my use the extra money for the hd is a function of diminishing return and an unnecessary expense, though great glass. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Bucs fan here. \n\nPros:\n\n1. Josh Freeman has never had a receiver with the talent of Vincent Jackson.\n\n2. Mike Williams proved he couldn't handle the #1 WR position, but he'll excel in the #2 slot.\n\n3. Last year Freeman tried to make things happen because their defense was so terrible and ended up creating more turnovers. This is very unlikely to happen again. \n\n4. Freeman throws to many receivers instead of focusing on one. This doesn't look well for Vincent Jackson's consistency.\n\n5. Doug Martin has good hands so this gives Freeman another check down option besides TE Stocker/D.Clark (both decent options).\n\n6. Bucs OL is now one of the best in the league and will give plenty of opportunities for the offense to produce and keep Freeman upright.\n\n7. Bucs passing schedule is one of the easiest in the league (along with the Falcons). http://www.fantasypros.com/nfl/strength-of-schedule.php\n\nCons:\n\n1. Schiano has made it well known he will run the ball.....a LOT! Now with 2 good RBs expect this to be a huge trend in Tampa. \n\n2. He isn't known to throw down field much, so big yardage plays don't happen very often. \n\n3. Bucs don't run a high octane offense, so the cap of elite points isn't there.\n\n\nOverall: Freeman won't have the opportunity in most games to produce like a top 10 QB so draft him like a consistent top 15 QB. A good backup.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Freemen is a steal even if he has a year like he did last year. But I am very bullish on Freemen and think he will have a better year and be that much more of a steal. Martin is over-hyped and will only share time with Blount, he is nowhere near ready to be a featured back. I dont know why people have such a hard-on for the guy. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think if you click data files in the morrowind launcher and hover your cursor over your save file, it should say what it is dependant on", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "As an Ent who has been in your position twice, with one of those being in the school parking lot, I can tell you that you are not shit out of luck. \nThere's a strong chance that you'll be able to pull for diversion when you go to court. \nWhat diversion is: It's an agreement you go into with the state (Example: Community service and a drug class) after you have completed the required tasks they simply go into your record and change it so that it is as if you were found not guilty by a jury during a trial. \nMy condolences go out to you and your predicament, it's never fun, but it is something that is relatively easy to deal with. \n\n:)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "As a Brit, if I wasn't on reddit my opinion of Americans would be this:\n\nAll Americans are over-weight, hard-core right wing Christians who believe in nothing but the holiness of the bible and McDonalds.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "it's a really good addition to the game, 2 black reach sized areas (that i know of), fixed vampires, added 2 awesome new fortresses, added a few new dragon types, new weapons and armor.\n\nit made me want to explore again. after 400+ hours of meticulously picking everything clean it was refreshing. :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Because you, should not be so invested in a given job/position that you require an email back saying that you didn't get it.\n\nIt blows balls and wears on you, but don't let it wear you down. You may have thought one job was perfect for you. I have had them and was really excited for them to possibly pan out, but, lo and behold, I didn't get the job. You should be sending your your resume as every where if you're looking for a job and hope something sticks.\n\nOr they were so blown away by your prowess in complaint letter writing that the entire HR department into a paralytic coma that has determined their fate to be gnawed away by rats.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I don't do assessments anymore unless I've gone to the place and talked to someone in person about the position.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "As a recruiter, I always TRY to give feedback. \n\nIt gets ridiculously exhausting though. I have 3 open positions. I had 8 candidates go for interviews and had to sort through 300 resumes of applicants in addition to calling the 40 resumes I sourced myself. \n\nI also had 10 candidates call in 1 of whom was qualified. \n\nAdd to that general office work and correspondence with people I have working for me and I have to pick my battles. \n\nWhen I got the decision on which of my candidates got hired I had to call them and handle new hire paperwork. \n\nNow I work for one of the larger staffing firms and my clients are big ones most of them are fortune 250 a lot are fortune 100. I have an obligation to uphold their brand name and my own companies as well as my own reputation. So why wouldn't I call a candidate or let them know they didn't get a job?\n\nIt's the part of my job with the least consequences if I slack off. Now to be clear the best recruiters don't do this. They have good relationships with everyone they touch. While I am extremely successful I admit I slack off here. \n\nIt's the least gratifying and exhausting part of my job. Even the automated emails result in a response that takes the wind out of me. Hearing or reading someone say how much they wanted a job is emotionally draining and time consuming. I've had candidates curse me out, threaten to sue, cry, plead and even try to bribe me in those conversations. I would just rather avoid them and have an excellent conversation with someone who I just put to work. \n\nIt might not be right and it sucks to read this but OP this is why it happens. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Yeah. I was filling out the online form for a company and got denied on the first page. It was like 6 questions that were like \"Are you a US citizen?\" Do you have a diploma?\" etc. Of course I meet the requirements but the form was coded wrong. They called me back and asked me to keep filling out the form. Then I had to take some other sort of (timed) test typing in codes for the job. I failed that so I had to call them back just to make sure it was me and not their system messed up again. Wanted to tell the recruiter \"yeah I don't really want to work for your company if you can't get your stuff together anyways.\"", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I have a beat up old Ford Escape and purchased a car dolly - tows the fronts, drags the rear wheels. Eventually I'm looking at a full trailer, however this was a great solution for the first couple years. The dolly brand new was about 2K. Alternatively, I have rented a U-haul trailer for car towing in the past, worked really well but I had to use a different truck due to the poor towing capacity of the Escape.\n\nEDIT - I'm in Ontario as well, maybe I'll see you at the track. (Centrillia lapping Sat the 18th)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You have a few options:\n\n* rent a truck and a dolly\n* buy a truck and a dolly(under $1K...but then you have to have insurance)\n* buy a USDM Supra shell or a wrecked one. Then register that and swap out the license plates and the VIN #s.\n* swap the plates from the current car, then if you get pulled over, just say you got this mad tyte body kit that makes your car look like a Supra\n* sell your car, and register the Supra...you are in Canada...unlike U.S. guys you can actually drive it legally.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Buy a cheap truck or SUV and a cheap tow dolly. It'll set you back a couple grand at most. Tow the Supra to and from, with the propshaft disconnected. If you plan on doing this often, invest in a full-size pickup, a flatbed trailer, a load-distributing hitch, and a brake controller. It'll be more expensive, but worth it.\n\nThat, or entice a friend with a truck, using beer.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you are going to be mostly at one track, see if they offer storage. It might be a long-shot, but never hurts to ask.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* Above all, remember that *you're not playing against your PCs*; RPGs aren't adversarial, they're an exercise in collective storytelling. Your job, above all else, is to help your PCs find their way through a great story.\n\n* That said, don't let your story get in the way of unscripted fun. Your PCs *will* find unexpected ways of tackling problems and get attached to NPCs who were meant to be background, so don't let yourself get too married to any given setting/plot point/NPC; if they like the chambermaid more than the princess, give her a name and work her in.\n\n* Don't let them lose focus, mind you - be sure to drive the story forward if the PCs are getting too hung up on unimportant details. \"You want to... arm wrestle the half-ork serving wench, even though you're here to meet the local law about [PLOT POINT]? Just because you want to see if that's how half-orks flirt? Ok, make a strength check... what do you know, you win the arm wrestling competition! You also win the next one, and the next, and the one after that. One thing leads to another, and after a night of drunken shenanigans you wake up to find yourself wrapped in brawny half-ork arms... on a prison cot. It seems like you got into some trouble last night, and now the town marshall seems to want to talk to you about [PLOT POINT].\"\n\n* Make rewards meaningful. Don't ever just put a \"short sword +2\" in a chest behind a bad guy - it's cooler if that same bad guy carries the sword (for which you found a [cool picture](http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/091/3/c/steampunk_sword__zanki__by_tamonten-d2ogz1x.jpg)), uses it on the PCs and then drops it after being killed.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Was this paid by direct debit? If so, and you can prove they billed you in error, then you can go to your back and ask for your money back under the \"Direct Debit Guarantee\".\n\nImportant: This wont get you off the bill, just get you the money back, then they will have to negotiate with you to get the money.\n\nThe ultimate recourse is for them to take you too court, but don't be scared by this, you get to go in front of a judge, where you'll be able to state your case.\n\nHowever the judge will only go on the evidence, both oral and written, so make sure you know your position. \n\nHowever before it gets there you'll probably be able to negotiate your way to a better discount.\n\nSo to recap, contact your bank and DEMAND they repay the money as what you've been charged is not what you agreed.\n\nhttp://www.thesmartwaytopay.co.uk/directdebitexplained/pages/directdebitguarantee.aspx\n\nGood luck.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "We did that too. Went from not seeing each other until December/January til me flying over in July. \n\nCongrats :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "its great that we have WRs now and everything, but I liked last year so much better when I didn't have expectations for Alex Smith. expectations suck. why do we need to have such frivolous things!", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Words cannot describe how relieved I am that the Hawks didnt sign Kolb. [Hallelujer!](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m506buUEzP1rvtc7qo1_400.gif)", "score": 10 }, { "body": "We lost Hawthorne who led the team in tackles in the offseason, that's a pretty big loss that I'm surprised they picked Charlie Whitehurst over.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I bet TO gets cut before the season ends.\n\nAnd with all those shiny first round picks, the Rams will be a force by 2014", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Go walk around the halls and meet your floormates. Also keep your door open and invite people to come in and talk with you.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Take a long hot shower. Maybe pop in a movie or take a walk around campus or hit up the gym. Get into a new routine. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Would rather wait until BBC/Moffat actually confirm this. Everyone thought 25th August would be the air date, but then when the time slots for BBC1 came out for that week, it didn't show Doctor Who, so everyone is now just thinking/hoping for the week after.", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "Hi, \n\nI'm Nicolas from Rogers Social media team. \n\nFirst off, I'm sorry to hear about your issue. \n\nI'm sending you a PM.\n\nNicolas\n@RogersNicolas | Rogers Social Media team", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Yeah, I have some advice for you. Don't take legal advice from Reddit.\n\nAnd that includes the above advice.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Before you fly off the handle. Make sure the charges were not in fact due to prorated billing. Not many people understand how proration works and it has the unfortunate side-effect of making billing changes look like the wrong price.\n\nSince you say in your post that they seemed to charge you twice, that is a tell tail sign that you are dealing with prorated billing.\n\nTo check, there should be dates attached to each of the charges somewhere on the bill.\n\nAnd as always, treat the call center people with respect. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The Q9450 is probably just barely a bottleneck on the 570 when you are playing cpu intensive games. Before considering a better GPU, I would focus on upgrading that first.\n\nTo answer your question: It depends. If you have the power supply to handle it, you don't mind the extra heat and you can afford the electric bill, another 570 would probably be a better choice than a 6-series card. This is assuming you could get the 570 for ~$200-230.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "You can tell when it's too high because at the top of the swing you can see them reach what I'll call negative gravity because all of a sudden they kind of float in the seat and you can tell that gravity is no longer pushing them down into the seat.\n\nIt's kind of scary because they float a cm or two out of the seat and then gravity grabs them again and pushes them back into the seat.+\n\n+Legal disclaimer: I do not know this from personal experience. **\n\n**I might", "score": 5 }, { "body": "When the child falls out of the swing, then that is too high.\n\nThis is related to [the way in which the load limit on bridges is determined](http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/12/18).\n\n", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "If you sleep with other people the relationship is done.\n\non the upside, you're probably not missing out on anything. Stranger sex is awkward and compared to sex with someone you know and trust, it just isn't good. You do get to feel that nice conquering feeling, but that's about it. You than spend the next 10 minutes wondering if the other person hates you now and is completely unsatisfied. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "If you really love each other, sleeping with other people *just for experience* is simply low hanging fruit. It'll seem exciting when you get it, but after the deed is done, it'll be just another lay. If you truly love each other, go after the stuff at the top. It takes commitment and dedication to each other, but I'll be damned if the reward isn't the sweetest thing ever.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "If you both have jealous personalities, it won't work. Even if you both promise to never see the one-nighter again, you'll both be left wondering \"were they better than me?\", etc, etc. It will slowly kill what you guys have.\n\nYou are at a point where you have to decide what happens next. Do you keep what you have and remain faithful or do you go out into the world and date around. Unfortunately, you can't have it both ways. I think the sex life comparing stuff sort of gets to guys. I know when my husband worked around a bunch of single horny guys, he'd get a bit jealous, but realized he was coming home to something much more valuable than just meaningless sex. :) Have an honest talk with your SO about everything and see where you two stand.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "That would be a cool idea for the budding copywriters on Reddit, a weekly portfolio project, and then after the ads are done, the experienced ad folk an critique them.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The best advice I can give (short of going to portfolio school) is to look at student portfolios that are already out there and then emulate them.\n\nHere's two random ones: [Drew Burton's portfolio](http://conciseprofundity.com/) and [Leigh Browne's portfolio](http://leighwritescopy.com/portfolio.html).\n\nYou'll get a sense of the type of work that creative directors are expecting when they spend time looking at your work.\n\nThere are literally thousands and thousands of portfolios out there. Take a look at the people you're going to competing with for jobs and make stuff that's better.\n\nAsk other creatives for their feedback and never stop improving your work. It's extremely competitive and, depending on your location, opportunities may be limited. Best of luck!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd go for a skin rip style and make it look like your arm was completely sewn back on, it would look badass", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Controlling skin oil is like solving a Chinese finger trap - you need to relax in order to get it figured out. Sounds like you are actually *over*-cleansing your skin. Yup, that's right...you are using products that are much too aggressive on the oil-stripping and are probably using them too often. Sounds paradoxical, but if you think about it, it makes sense...your skin is actually over-producing oil to compensate for all of the oil-stripping you have been doing. That's why the cleansers you use seem to work for a little bit then do absolutely nothing - your skin has adjusted. So what you wind up with is a totally out-of-whack oily mess for skin.\n\nSolution? Relax. Use gentle cleansers. Some people in your position actually use the oil cleansing method with fantastic results - this involves using a mixture of castor oil and a vegetable oil (frequently coconut, jojoba, or olive oil) in place of a soapy cleanser to dissolve the dirt and oils in your skin without actually drying out your skin too much, You may want to give it a try.\n\nWhatever you wind up doing, you need to give your skin a chance to mellow out before you get impatient with lack of results and start punishing it with harsh cleansers again. It needs time to equilibrate, and trust me - it will get less oily.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I TOTALLY understand where you are coming from. My skin is oily and will take any excuse to break out. I have the same problem with products that everyone else seems to love, and I buy them with high hopes, and it seems like they're working until I break out again. I don't have a permanent solution, but I'll give you pointers that have helped me.\n\nFirst: Wash your pillowcase every time you do laundry. You can't wash it too much.\n\nSecond: Don't touch your face. Every time you realize you're resting your chin on your hand or anything like that, STOP. Don't touch!\n\nThird: Disinfect your phone often.\n\nFourth: Only buy small sizes of products, never the economy size. I know this seems pricier, but products do have shelf lives. The little symbol of an open jar with 6M or 12M will tell you how long it lasts. I don't think many people have reactions to expired products, but I do, and you might also. The smaller of a container you get, the fresher the ingredients you are putting on your face. I have thrown out half-used jugs (yes jugs lol) of expensive name brand products like Philosophy and Clinique, that seemed to work great but then literally soured before I used it up. What a waste.\n\nAnd, finally, a product plug: I don't think evangelizing for particular brands is all that helpful usually, because everyone has different chemistry and different reactions to things, and there are a zillion products that SOMEbody swears are like the angels playing harps on their skin. But, since you have similar issues to me, I will just let you know that the best line I have found is DHC. It is a Japanese brand that specializes in a cleansing oil (counterintuitive to clean with oil but it works) and products with high-quality clean ingredients for sensitive skin. I have been using their stuff for about a year with good results.\n\nGood luck. :)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "*raises hand*\n\n \"yes brother ____\" \n\nUhhhh.... if there's a filter, how are we supposed to watch porn?", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Lot of good comments here, but I'd like to add one of the most distressing parts of this in my opinion. \"Encouraged to give the mother the password\", so this is saying what? The husband is untrustworthy? This is just selling the gender stereotype that men \"can't help it\" and women are pure innocent virgins, unless they're also skanky sluts then they deserve whatever happens to them. Ulg, fuck that. I'm an adult, I'm responsible for my own fucking actions.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "there was at least one \"5th sunday\" meeting that i attended in which they laid out the 'dangers of the internet' and gave recommendations as to which filters are good, etc.\n\nmy parents bought into it hook, line, and sinker. it took them ages to even get DSL because they were convinced that using this utah-based filtered dial-up ISP (when we lived on the east coast, too) was safer. never mind that i'd figured out how to get around the filter and find whatever i wanted by the time i was 17.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Sure! Lots of encouragement for internet censorship. Problem is though that its couched in a discussion of utah-based businesses that specialize in firewalls. Fear, control and denial of access to information takes a sideline to the true purpose, profits.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "We was taught the computer should always be in the family, living room and should only be used when others are in the room... I think that was more to do with the porn issue, but I assume it was for parents to censor anti-mormon material also.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My parents tried to forbid me from using my personal laptop (that I bought with my own money) anywhere but the living room / dining room when I was 18/19 before I moved out. They also tried making me give them my passwords.\n\nDidn't work too well. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "And yet, despite all of this, Utah remains the #1 ranked state on google trends for searching the word: pornography.\n\nPornography thrives off secrecy.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You can't give people keys to the kingdom, they need to find it on their own.\n\nI said something earlier that kinda describes how I feel. Mostly, when people judge harshly, the best way to go about things is to zip your lips, and carry on. Show them your results, and do not try to convince them. Because **you can't**. \n\nI suffered through 2 years of self loathing before finding my way to diet and exercise. Everyone comes around, it just has to be a personal mission. \n\nI'm sorry that you've had to endure eating disorder. I can't imagine the horrors associated. \n\nIn short, haters gonna hate, baiter's gonna bait, and 'maters gonna ketchup. ", "score": 37 }, { "body": "None of use are experts, that's the point. People who do scientific dietary research for a living can't even agree with each other. All that matters is results - if you are seeing positive results, and you feel good, then continue.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I had a few friends that were this way but as soon as I hit 50lbs lost they all shut up. I haven't heard a negative word since.\n\nSuccess is the best revenge.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "one thing i've come to realize with this diet... EVERYONE thinks they're the expert and your kidneys are going to explode any minute now. my favorite used to be \"you know, atkins went into a coma and DIED! why would you follow that kind of diet??\" i tell them \"dr. atkins died because he slipped on an icy step and cracked open his skull on the concrete. if you've got a diet that will prevent THAT, i'll happily follow it!\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My father has been telling me I need to lose weight for years. Since January I've lost ~45 lbs and counting. Last week when I saw him he said, \"You're getting too skinny\". /mindblown Don't let family fuck with you. Ignore it and move on. I'm doing this shit for myself not for anyone else. \n\nAnother story. My good friend would tell me all the shit I eat is bad, fattening etc. etc. I now weight less than he does. He shut the fuck up. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My sister is actually the same way. My mom said something about my weight loss (17# in a month, not too shabby) and she said she couldn't notice a difference, then proceeded to jump down my throat every time I prepared something to eat or mentioned anything keto related (like my increased energy or improved mood). \n\nMy sis has had an unspecified eating disorder for many years, keeps saying how fat she is st 5'8\" 130#, eats nothing all day and drinks like a frat boy every night. It seems like it really makes her angry that not only am I having success with my weight loss, that I am not doing it the way she has through self denial and obsessive exercise. \n\n She refuses to read anything about keto and won't even listen to me when I try and explain the legitimate health benefits of a LCHF diet. Very frustrating to the point where I feel like this is just one of many issues that are preventing us from having the awesome bff sisterly relationship we have always had. \n\nI don't know what to tell you as I am currently not even speaking to her after the last time I saw her when she very aggressively got all up in my face about thus. Time will prove me right, I am just worried about her health, her drinking, and most of all about her one year old baby. \n", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">And you think neanderthals were eating pasta back in the day?\n\nWhy would you bring up neanderthals? we didnt evolve from them...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I gave my wife this book to read, and she shut up about 'fat is bad, etc' and got interested in trying it herself with me. \n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307272702", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hah, takes Phentermine and gives diet advice. I'm constantly amazed at how easily people can rationalize anything about themselves and totally fail to see how ridiculous they look to others.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's almost certainly not \"random.\" Looking at the info you provided, I'd assume your credit card company reports the balance on your account (rounded to the nearest dollar) on the last day of the calendar month. So on 7/31/12, you had a balance of $2.91 (rounded up to $3) and that's what was sent to the bureaus. \n\nIn my own experience I think I've typically only seen statement balances being reported, but I understand that creditors can report on whatever schedule they want, even if it doesn't align with the dates your statements post. If this is a concern for you, I'd call and ask, or just watch it for another month or two to see if that's what is happening, and adjust your payments accordingly.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Just make sure you are actually committed to the idea of being a volunteer firefighter, and will stick it out - it'd be a shame if you used up thousands of the department's dollars for training, then did not stay on to actually fight fires and such. Some (especially smaller) departments really struggle with this, and it hurts the department and the community in the long run.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "Paid firefighter/paramedic here... Unfortunately you will not learn too many things that will apply to survival. We use few things that I could see being applicable, such as, leaning different techniques with ropes and knots (mechanical advantage/self rescue/high angle/confined space). Realistically it has become a trade with specialized equipment. So in a sense most none of our training is useful without the toys for it.\n Now as far as the two most important aspects you could learn is EMS and how to remain calm and clear headed to appropriately manage a very chaotic situation. (I wont tough on the EMS because that doesn't need explaining) Some people are pretty natural at it, but most people have difficulty controlling their adrenal and emotional response. I don't just mean as a firefighter (Although you will learn situational awareness). I really am directing this towards serious EMS calls. Guys will lose their cool. Remaining composed and professional while focusing on your training is mostly a learned behavior from occupational desensitization. (Seeing a few fucked calls a month will do that)\n As far as the fitness... its solely up to you. Very few departments that I am familiar with have a mandatory fitness routine. \n I can only account for a city/suburban paid fire dept. I imagine leaning fire suppression in forestry would be different because those guys might be in the forest for long periods at a time.\n I dont want this to discourage you.... Go. volunteer. Learn. Be part of something that is bigger than you. I wish more people would feel that civil service doesn't have to be an occupation, but a place for self fulfillment. \n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Where do you live that your volunteers get in shape and learn \"other tactical skills\" our volunteer dept are just a bunch of guys who know CPR, and have been to a few classes on how to ventilate a structure so it burns out and how to prevent it from spreading.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I am not one who believes in preparing for an eminent collapse. I found this sub through /r/zombies, and it makes for fun reading and critical thinking.\n\nI will say though, if you're interested in this stuff, or interested in helping your kids prepare for *life in general* the scouts were great to me.\n\nI'm an eagle scout, I learned leadership, first aid, lifesaving, fitness, wilderness survival, gun safety and use, bow safety and use, orienteering, pioneering, electronics, cooking, and loads of other very useful skills (like useful _today_) in my youth.\n\nFlipping through a scout handbook would give you a decent feel for the types of skills you need to progress, and flipping through a merit badge handbook would give you even more of that (for specific areas) The merit badge books themselves are about $7/each and have the actual guts you have to learn.\n\nI can't say that I agree with some decisions the BSA has made, but it was good for me. You can get involved as a volunteer. It helps if you were a scout or have scout-aged kids, even girls if you check out venture scouts. Scouts need a mentor for every merit badge, an adult who is comfortable with the curriculum, probably as good an excuse as any to get comfortable with the curriculum and do some good while you're at it.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Excellent post!\n\nAlso, in many cities there are local emergency management agencies with volunteer ham radio services and urban search and rescue.\n\nThe ham groups don't usually require a licence but will train you for free to make licensing a breeze. And obviously you'll end up with key skills and amazing connections. Same with urban search and rescue.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I joined my local volunteer force when i moved to a rural location. It was exactly as you described, OP. I got to meet the locals, learn the geography of the area, I stayed in shape, and I got to help people. No down side at all.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Seeing as I've tripped over the earth, I find myself agreeing with this theory. Also, I have marbles, which are well recognised as perfectly round, and they don't have skyscrapers or mountains on them.\n\nTheory approved. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Heresy! \n\nMy Globe is totally round and flat and I've been assured by a very helpful associate at Staples that it is a scale model of the earth. There's no bumps on it at all.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "“This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.” - Martin Luther\n\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Thanks, for what is clearly an honest post from the heart. I think we all feel like this sometimes. Probably no single comment will answer all your questions. \n\nI would simply say this. You are not alone. \n\nGet out and have some fun. I don't doubt that God is working something out in your life that may not be obvious now.\n\nPlease don't stay inside reading your bible while there are people out here that need you.\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "It sounds like you are *forever alone*. \" “It is not good for the man to be alone....\" Gen. 2:18. As difficult as it is, being in fellowship with one another for the purpose of \"rejoicing with those who rejoice and weeping with those who weep\" is desired by God. I would look at Acts 2:42-47 to get an idea of the relationships you need to strive to create with other believers. \nAnd one big encouragement for people like myself who \"can never get it together\": we don't have to have it all together here on earth. We are not made holy and righteous... We are *being* made holy Heb 10:14.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Honestly that is a very healthy feeling.\n\n \"I feel like I'm set up to fail. I'm given a list of things that are wrong, but that list is all I had. And now I'm trying to resist, but wtf am I supposed to do without those things?\"\n\nBeg, cry, and incessantly ask God to conform your heart to one that looks like Jesus'. There are periods in my life where I will absolutely HATE reading the Bible and praying. Then along comes the harvest for a few months or so and I kid you not, reading the Word and talking with God are literally my most favorite things. I will stay home - I will abstain from friends not because I like them any less but because I'd RATHER stay and contemplate God. The dry periods are hard. Especially with the temptation to sin. Sin attempts to satisfy this need in your heart for pleasure, but it doesn't and it ultimately leads to destruction. \n\nGod sees your tiny endeavors as tremendous. Ransack the Bible to the best of your ability and pray without ceasing that God would help. You really don't need to know exactly what to pray.. . Sorry you sound a lot like me but God came in ways greater than I ever imagined because I stuck with it. I'm praying for you.\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Hang in there. \n\nI suggest thinking and praying about what ministries you might like to do in your life ahead, in line with your spiritual gifts and natural abilities - how you can advance the kingdom of God, in ways that you can really get passionate about, and find interesting, and are naturally willing to work toward. Once you have a sense of direction, you can start to willingly use your days in that direction. That can help reduce the times of boredom. \n\n\n\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "There are other ways to enjoy life without falling into sin. Sit with friends and family, and think about the smaller things in life, the extrapolate on that.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "This exactly why I stopped being a christian. I was raised christian, and was extremely devout till my mid twenties. No matter what I did, how much I prayed, how much I read the Bible or how often I went to church, I was still guilty and sinful.\n\nSo you know what? I got tired of it. Tired of the guilt, the failure, the pressure. I realized that I didn't believe in a god that would want me to always feel that way. I wasn't productive, I wasn't doing anything, and I certainly wasn't happy. So I stopped. I left the church and found my own belief. A belief in myself.\n\nBe a good person. Do what makes you happy. Always help others. Be loving, kind and encouraging. These are the things to do to be happy, and you're born with them. We all are. Be yourself.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The others have given you a lot of good advice, and a lot of encouraging words. I hope you see that people care about you, even though they don't know you. Jesus and God love you in whatever state you come to them, and Jesus will continue to love you through all of your struggles and pains.\n\nAdvice: Don't go through this alone. Find people who believe that you feel you can trust, and just talk to them and be with them. Growth is hard and painful, but we don't have to grow by ourselves.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Because people tend to see problems with the things they disagree with not the things they want to believe are true.\n\nYoure right its completely speculative. For instance it is not illegal to raise money from American citizens living abroad, and there are quite a few living in London and Israel.\n\nPlus from what I hear Obama has done the same - ie its a completely one sided argument blinded by bias.\n\nGood point but prepare to be downvoted. \n\nEdit: Punctuation ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Did you see the top comments including mine? They pointed out that the story is indeed BS - this kind of self-correction will never happen at Fox who actually double down many times on false stories.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "You might be misunderstanding why people upvote. They don't just upvote because they want it to get to the front page and they want to pass it off as facts, but maybe they do agree with it, maybe they think it's funny (I sure did) or maybe they do want more attention drawn to it to promote more people to join the discussion as more people would be likely to see it. Don't just assume it is because all of /r/politics agrees with it. \n ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Part is to blame that people don't read the actual artical, only the headline and assume the case was made.\n\nIt is the failure of the hive mind to assume that all members of the mind are equal. We need to keep pointing out crap with logic and working to downvote it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Steelseries QCK mousepad, i use the QCK+ thats the XXL version but they have smaller ones all of which are under $20 on newegg", "score": 6 }, { "body": "C4 ngen 04. \n\nIts high quality. It will last longer than any cloth (some people have had theirs for 6+ years). It tracks better than cloth (tracks like a hard pad). It is less than 0.5mm thick so you can put your keyboard on it. You can order a GIANT one and cut it into smaller ones. It has lower friction than a cloth pad. Washable with tap water. \n\nDownsides:\nIncreased friction when it gets dirty. (give it a wet wipe)\nImperfections in your desk will show through", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My apologies in advance for the Australian link, but I am very happy with my [\"Razer Goliathus- Fragged Extended Mousemat\"](http://www.scorptec.com.au/computer/43469-rz-golia-f-ctl-ext-r). ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Here's a list I put together a year ago: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmBP968NTOn2dFpEVXMzSThWV1JOb0JwYkVZQ3JwWmc. Hope it's helpful. \n\nI graduated in 2009 with a PhD in planetary science from U of AZ.", "score": 4 } ]

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[ { "body": " What do you do for these people. I only ask because some cases it can be confused with you taking advantage of the situation. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Be aware that you are not allowed to vote in the senate primary and then also vote in a democratic primary. You must choose either republican or democrat.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Training sets are used to avoid overfitting the model. That is, having the model represent the particular data rather than the underlying pattern. Overfitted models do not generalize well to novel data, thereby reducing their validity. Methodologically, if a model is tested on the same data it was constructed with, is the model really being tested?", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "I think he suspected him at least, because he definitely actively tried to keep them apart. While Cercei was at court in KL, Jamie was at Casterly Rock. When Jamie joined the white cloaks, Tywin sent Cercei back to Casterly Rock.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "Kevan knew because Stannis had been spreading the rumor all over the kingdoms, and by that point Cersei had also been arrested on the accusation that she'd screwed several other guys. So it was not really the logical leap that it would have been earlier on. \n\nI'm not sure that Tywin could have known. You can be really, really cunning, but it can still be hard to imagine an outlandish scenario like, \"Oh, maybe my son and daughter are having an adulterous, incestuous affair behind the king's back.\" It's not something you would even suspect without pretty telling evidence to start from.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I remember them saying Tywin burned Stannis's letter a few chapters after Tyrion said not to in KL because it would show they are afraid of what the message was saying.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Everyone seems to misunderstand Tywin. At youth, he was forced to take control of his house due to his fathers incompetence, and suffered throughout his life for it. His fathers affair after his mothers death is a compliant reason for not marrying again. His anger at oppurtunists like his mothers whore is the primary reason for Tyrions marriage punishment. Reaving the river lands and butchering children? All part of his experience that everything is permitted for his goals. He destroyed the Reynes, and half the kingdom respected and feared him for it. Like a machine, Tymin is a hard motherfucker who gets shit done.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Unless it got refinanced and she got taken off of the note, that would be the only way she'd get \"screwed\" here.\n\nAt 8%, she likely definitely needs to look into refinancing. She needs to contact multiple lenders and get good faith estimates to calculate the cost of refinancing, along with what her new payment will be.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "I often feel this way. As strange as it sounds, the depression can become comforting, for lack of better words. You're so used to it as it is how you deal with whatever is going on in life. So not having it there, can feel weird for a lot of reasons.\n\nOne thing I found for me is part of the uneasiness was realizing that I was scared to do anything about my depression. And not feeling so overwhelmed by my depression meant that I was closer to taking that first step to addressing the issue in the bigger picture (for me, that meant therapy). And honestly, I used that as an excuse not to go for a while. I'm not saying this is what is happening to you. Just that the unfamiliar can be scary. But over time, I've also learned it can be exhilarating. Letting go and accepting that I don't have the kind of control I want over whether or not this is a calm before the storm. Accepting that when the next storm hits, I can get through it because I've been through other storms.\n\nYou definitely do not deserve to feel depressed or suicidal. Just enjoy that you're feeling good. You mentioned getting back some of your appetite...just keep it going. Go out and get something you know you like the taste of and just appreciate how good it tastes. :)", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "The error is in \n\n> P(MA|A) = P(H)P(MA|H) + P(D)P(MA|D) + P(C)P(MA|C) + P(S)P(MA|S)\n\nThis formula is only valid if H, D, C, and S are disjoint events (whose union is A). They aren't disjoint in this case.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "You can partition all bridge hands into 16 subsets, which I'll call Hxxxx. H0000 are the hands with no aces, H1000 are the hands containing only the ace of clubs, H0100 are the hands containing only the ace of diamonds, and so on, with order Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, Spades. H0011 are all the hands containing just the aces of hearts and spades.\n\nYou can combine these 16 sets into 5 sets based on the counts of aces. \n\n J0 = H0000, |J0| = 48C13\n J1 = H1000 U H0100 U H0010 U H0001, |J1| = 4 * 48C12\n J2 = H1100 U H1010 U ... U H0011, |J2| = 6 * 48C11\n J3 = H1110 U H1101 U H1011 U H0111, |J3| = 4 * 48C10\n J4 = H1111, |J4| = 48C9\n\nThe first question asks for (# of hands with at least 2 aces) / (# of hands with at least one ace), which is (|J2| + |J3| + |J4|)/(|J1| + |J2| + |J3| + |J4|), or 1 - |J1|/(52C13 - |J0|), which is 1 - (4 \\* 48C12)/(52C13 - 48C13) = 1 - 278674137872/442085310304 = 5359/14498.\n\nThe second question asks for (# of hands with ace of spades + at least one more eace)/(# of hands with the ace of spades), or (|H0011|+|H0101| + |H0111| + |H1001| + |H1011| + |H1101| + |H1111|) / (|H0001| + |H0011|+|H0101| + |H0111| + |H1001| + |H1011| + |H1101| + |H1111|), which is equal to 1 - |H0001| / (# of hands with ace of spades), which equals 1 - 48C12 / 51C12 = 1 - 69668534468 / 158753389900 = 11686/20825.\n\nThese answers are different numbers.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "They tried it in Florida. 97.4% passed, and the ACLU is currently suing the state on the grounds that mandatory drug testing is a violation of a persons constitutional rights.\n\nMillions of tax dollars are being wasted just to \"save\" money on welfare.\n\nThe system is being abused from the top down, not the bottom up.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Drug testing of welfare recipients is just a cheap political ploy and vilification of the poor, it's always costs more money than it saves.\n\nDrug testing should always come with *due process* - if at all. If the agency has reasonable belief / evidence that the person isn't looking for a job after some duration for whatever reason, then they should rectify *that*.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "100% against, for several reasons.\n\n* It furthers the whole punitive stance of the War on Drugs, rather than taking a more sane harm reduction approach. It also singles out a particular population and implicitly assumes that they are guilty of something without due process or probable cause.\n* The act of submitting to a drug test inherently robs a person of their dignity. Generally speaking you are being forced to urinate into a cup and, if any sort of chain of custody is being observed, you are doing this in the presence of some stranger in a position of authority. \n* Drug tests, in general, are pretty much cheating in my view. Using the employment example; it is one thing to have a policy requiring that I submit to a test, but it should be because a reasonable suspicion exists. In other words, if I am showing up on time every day, doing the work I am paid to do competently that should be enough. \n\nJust off the top of my head. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I think it would cost more than it would save - people like to talk about how welfare is \"abused\" but there are far more people unable to get help then there are who abuse the system. \n\nThe only way it might be OK, was if they were then offered rehab free of charge. Otherwise, you're penalizing someone for having a medical/mental health problem.\n", "score": 11 }, { "body": "They are out of work, living in poverty, with no hope and no future... and they should be tested for drugs? sure after the police, bankers and politicians.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Surprisingly(?) most will pass. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/us/no-savings-found-in-florida-welfare-drug-tests.html ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "My biggest issue with it is purely economical. Drug tests are expensive and can be pretty inaccurate. I have friends who smoke cannabis, and though I don't find anything wrong with it, jobs that drug test do. And yet, they remain gainfully employed because every drug test is beatable. So we waste a bunch of money on tests that aren't accurate enough to solve the problem we're trying to solve. I don't believe it belittles the person in any way, though. While the downtrodden and disenfranchised deserve the help of their fellow man, that doesn't mean they can act irresponsibly while receiving that help.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Noooo! Who gives a crap if poor people smoke/do drugs? We don't drug test students receiving student loans either and some of them are using your taxpaye money to buy/use drugs as well... ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "It's already illegal to do drugs. Taking away the minimal life support we provide to the lowest-income citizens isn't going to stop addicts from getting their fix, and it's humiliating for the families who desperately need assistance. \n\n\nIt's costly and, just a few months ago, testing like OP is talking about in Florida was [found to be unconstitutional](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/us/court-rules-florida-governors-drug-testing-order-unconstitutional.html), since it is an unreasonable search and seizure.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "\"Number 2: You have the right to food money \n\nProviding of course you \n\nDon't mind a little \n\nHumiliation, investigation \n\nAnd if you cross your fingers \n\nRehabilitation\"\n\n-\"Know Your Rights\" by the Clash, 1982\n\nThey are being sarcastic, of course. They're aren't in favor of humiliating the poor. They sum up my feelings pretty well. Great song too. (The other rights in the song are the right not be killed unless it was done by an aristocrat or a policeman and the right to free speech as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.) \n\n ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Alcohol is far more destructive and prevalent, should anyone who has a glass of wine be denied welfare too? Anyone on perscription medication? It's a huge waste of money, takes money away from the children of welfare recipients and is unfairly targeting those who use marijuana since the hard drugs are usually out of a persons system in 72 hours. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "If I was poor I'd probably want to smoke a j occasionally too, as I'm sure being poor sucks. I don't really care that much, I'm still paying taxes either way. If you start drug testing welfare peeps, unemployment is probably next and so on. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A few points:\n\n * First and foremost this was tested in Florida already and was essentially a failure.\n\n * Drug testing is essentially marijuana testing. Table here shows how long each drug stays in your system. Most are out in a few hours, some a few days. They could solve the issue by hair testing but this is more expensive.\n\n * Commonly alcohol is left out as it is legal. So, someone could smoke 1 cannabis cigarette and be invalidated, but drink every day and be OK? Ditto for abusing prescription drugs.\n\n * Aside of the above issues it is an invasion of privacy and abuse of individual rights. The tax payer savings are not there. Spend the money elsewhere, such as welfare fraud and leave individuals to pursue life as they please.\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Maybe instead of always harping on people receiving welfare we actually try and do something to help them other than financial assistance? Educate them, help them land jobs, and not stick them all in public housing. \n\n\"Oh, but that's wasting money on the poor. They'll just turn around and use it on drugs.\" I'm pretty sure most people would rather not be living in a shithole and addicted to drugs. Rehabilitation and support would help with drug issues. Not entirely, but it would help.\n\nYou need to fix the problems at the root, not just patch up and try to fix it all afterwards. Unfortunately, the U.S. is too conservative to do anything like this, and anybody who would preach helping those on welfare would be labelled as a \"commie\". Nobody wants to be poor.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "When my husband and I see terrible parents (those who don't notice their 3 yo is running around a parking lot, the mother who screamed 'you little motherfucker!' at her son at the zoo)... I say to him, \"See? That's who God gives children to.\" Just as a gallows humor attempt. It helps, for some reason, don't know why. Seriously, though, maybe you're in her life because you're an example of what a parent should be... you never know.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I know how you feel. It's hard to see the scummy family at the restaurant with their 3 kids and 2 babies, allowing the kids to run around unchecked, acting like obnoxious slobs, etc. It's just not fair.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I'm with you, sickens me when nature doesn't give any fucks about who gets to have kids. I know so many wonderful people who are struggling with infertility while pieces of garbage keep procreating, drink/smoke/drug while pg, and can't even discipline them for anything....ugh. It's perfectly healthy to feel angry but maybe you should see a therapist to see if you can find ways to help you during those difficult times. and BIG HUGS!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Rant away! I have to spend my day helping families like this. Was never an issue until infertility became my issue. Meanwhile I still have to teach parents how to parent and dance around the fact that medication won't fix the effects of shitty parenting (I'm not anti-med by any means, just anti-shitty-parenting).", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "You are showing how brave you are by posting a AMD build in a subreddit where Intel is worshiped. No offense redditors but there is still AMD and it is pretty good for the money (I am an 2500K user), but to your build, I like it. I am waiting for Pile Driver to come out so I can get the 6 core. Can't wait to see build pics. Hope you enjoy it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm suprised more people don't use the 6100, it's a great processor for the cash.\nBut yeah, as others have said - Raidmax power supplies would probably be removed by the bomb squad in Afghanistan, let's just say they aren't renowned for their quality and reliability.\n\nHowever, since you're going to be using far less than 700w (even at full load) the chances are you'll never be drawing enough watts to pop it - but I would be wary of the voltage jitter.\n\nI would test the system for stability once you've got it, and make sure there isn't even a hint of shitty voltages, or else replace it with a known good PSU.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I know this is rude and I'm sorry for saying this, but how did you not notice this? I thought it was pretty obvious. ", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I found [this article by Toastmasters](http://www.toastmasters.org/199-YourSpeakingVoice) very informative and helpful.\n\nThe most important thing: Don't expect changes to quickly. While it may be easy to follow the instructions and have good results at home, application IRL is more difficult due to many distractions/anxiety.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Liam Gallagher sings with his arms behind his back to allow for a better projection of his voice. Once I realised my posture was somewhat hunched, I straightened myself out, and with it my voice was less strained and that little bit clearer. Just to test, [try this out and see if it makes a difference.](http://www.econoco.com/images/display/sym-c.jpg)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It doesn't add up. See, sticks and stones can break bones, but a sword can kill you, right? And we all know the pen is mightier than the sword. And pens write words. Therefore words hold a much higher danger than sticks or stones.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Because words suck when used in a certain way. It doesn't really feel good when some tells you that you should kill yourself/burn in hell/are a terrible person/etc.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I think it's because back when it was said all the time people actually thought that in general words don't hurt. You really didn't get in trouble for calling people names. But since the whole bullying revolution people are starting to tell their kids that words do hurt. Now people are in serious trouble for calling people names. Then again i could be completely wrong, because the only degree I have is in bullshit ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Hi there ! You've done your research alright, congrats ;) ! \"Ferrets for Dummies\" is in my opinion the best book on the subject so good choice. For the smell, I owe 3 ferrets : 2 males and 1 female. My one male Whiskey smells like honey, I love his smell ! Really sweet. He used to smell pretty bad when his hormones appeared. Until he was neutered and then it just stopped. My other male, Koda (angora) still smells a bit because he was just neutered a month ago. But it doesn't stinks. And my 3rd one Cookie (cute little female) doesn't smell whatsoever. It is indeed necessary to change the litter every week, and to clean the poos everyday (especially if it's hot !). But really, the smell is really ok =)) ! They do need lots of attention, and will love you to play with them in their time out. I have them almost a year now, and I couldn't live without ! Good luck ! If you need to know anything else, let me know (not that I'm an expert, but I've learned a lot).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "1. Wash all bedding once a week, this is important as the oils from their skin will rub off onto fabrics and make them smell\n\n2. Scoop out the litter box once per day and use a clumping litter. You CAN use cat litters, just not clay or any kind with \"crystals\". I prefer [Shweat Scoop](http://swheatscoop.com/)\n\n3. Feed a [decent diet](http://moredooks.herobo.com/search.php?chart=ferret)\n\nAnd you won't even notice the smell until you stick your face into their fur.\n\nAlso as you said, don't give them soapy baths. You can give them plain water baths pretty much whenever you like, this helps get dust and what-not off their fur without drying out the skin (which in turn causes the skin to over-produce oils to compensate, which makes them stink)\n\nDoing the above and they won't smell any more than a dog or cat. Diet is truly key, though. Feed a raw diet or [Wysong Epigen 90](http://www.wysong.net/products/ferret-epigen-90.php) if you can.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Vigorous fermentation with insufficient head-space to contain the krausen. I have blowoff on every beer I make.... I always use yeast starters & oxygenate with pure oxygen prior to pitching. I make 5 gallon batches in 6 gallon better bottles. If they made 7 gallon better bottles I would buy the crap out of them & then it would be significantly less likely that I would have blowoff issues.", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "\n\n >> Should I just be going to some big banks around my neighborhood and get estimates from them? Should I scout out smaller banks/credit unions?\n\nGo anywhere you think might do refinancing and get good faith estimates on the refi. You do not have to stick to local banks for this.\n\n>> Anything I can be doing online? Checking my parents credit history/score?\n\nThey will have to apply for refinancing online usually. I don't see the point in you personally checking their credit score. You're not a loan officer.\n\n>> Should I just go after a bank with no or small closing costs?\nYou need to do all the calculations. Just because it says no closing costs, doesn't mean there are no closing costs. Sometimes these costs get rolled into the loan. Other times, they offer a higher interest rate in lieu of no closing costs.\n>> Is there anything such as a 10-year fixed rate, or are we limited to 30 year and 15 year?\n\nI believe a 10 year is offered, but you probably won't save much over a 15.\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "What a stupid place to put a code... thanks for the warning.\n\nLooks like Qualtrics is working again too!", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "The further out you are from the perimeter, the cheaper the houses get and the worse the local economy gets. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I live in Mableton and have for about 20+ years. I love Mableton. \nIf you send me the addresses I can tell you what is good and bad. Also, if you are looking to buy then get a realtor. I suggest to you Wendy Bunch. She is an awesome realtor and has been specializing in the south Cobb area for many, many years.\n\nPros:\n* My area is awesome. We have sidewalks with people on them 24-7 and even a running club that uses it on the weekend.\n* I can walk to a nature park from my house.\n* Silver Comet Trail is 1.5 miles from my house.\n* Grocery stores are 1 mile from my house.\n* I work in Midtown and it is only 12 miles away. (24 min drive in the AM, 30 min drive home in the PM)\n* Growing population of 20-30 somethings because of the closeness to Atlanta.\n* Very diverse so if you don't like black, mexicans, africans, or any others then you won't like it.\n\nCons:\n* Schools: Most professional white people send their kids to private school once they hit middle school age. Whitefield is a big one around here.\n* I'm sure there are others but I'm tired of typing.\n\nIf you have any specific questions let me know, I'd be more than happy to help.\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Cobb County tends to have cheaper property values I'm pretty sure. But I can't tell you much about Mableton since I live in East Cobb. I don't really go around there much.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It's a nice enough area depending on the particular location. The low prices might be because of the large amount of subdivisions that were built before and during the housing bust.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's 100% schools. We have been looking for a house for a year now. Anytime there is a decent house in a decent school district that we like, we end up competing with 2 or 3 other buyers. We have been out bid 4 times now. The best two districts in Smyrna/Mableton are Teasley and King Springs, but middle schools are crap and so is the high school. \n\nLook in 30082 and 30080, but since supply is historically low, be ready to fight for the good homes. Don't dick around and try to low ball offers, if you like the house figure out what you are willing to pay and offer that up front. We lost on house by $1500 when we were prepared to offer almost $4000 more. We got screwed by trying to get a deal and hoping that they were going to allow for more bidding.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I can't attest to the schools but the are is nice. It's quite and most neighbor hoods suffer from little crime. A lot of older black residents mixed with older white and some Hispanic families. There are some very rich neighborhoods around the area to so the area looks pretty nice. I take 20 into downtown every morning fr work and it's a breeze. What is it specifically you want to know?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I grew up in Mableton. Went to South Cobb high school. The only redeeming factor is it's only 10 minutes to downtown Atlanta. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "God this thread is creepy. Check the [Miami New Times](http://www.miaminewtimes.com/events/search/date:%5B2012-08-18%5D/) for events. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Unfortunately, there aren't a whole lot of \"privately owned stores or boutiques\" on the beach. It's pretty touristy, and as you work your way south (down Ocean Drive or Collins) the stores become more and more overpriced, \"high-end fashion\"-esque. As for cheap/not touristy food, here are my suggestions:\n\nLa Sandwicherie (sandwiches, obviously. cheap. delivers)\n\nYummy (middle of the road in terms of price and quality, but I think it's the best chinese on the beach)\n\nYardbird (not cheap. Suuuuper delicious)\n\n\nDoraku on Lincoln Road has a really good happy hour on food and drinks from 5-7 every day. I wouldn't go there outside of happy hour, however.\n\nCheeseburger Baby (not too expensive, good drunk food. Delivers. Open until 5am)\n\nThe cafe at the Wolfsonian on 10th is really nice. One of the few calm, enjoyable locations in the heart of the beach. The coffee's fine. The book selection is pretty academic and specialized, but I like the atmosphere.\n\nI'll post more if/when I think of them.\n\nOh and I don't club, but I know the good dive bars if you're interested.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It's been a while since I lived on the beach but there are plenty of great places to eat. I know Rok: BRGR just opened up 5800 sw 73rd st, Miami, FL. If you want a true south beach gem, go hit up Le Sandwichere on 14th http://www.lasandwicherie.com/ It is awesome! [Le Sandwicherie](http://www.lasandwicherie.com/)\n\nAnother good choice is Lime. Fresh, organic Mexican food.\n\nYou should just go to Yelp or Urbanspoon if you know what kind of food you are looking for.\n\nShopping, cant help you there. I do all my shopping online and avoid malls/etc like the plague. Good luck though.\n\nClubs..take your pick. You'll be fine, there is plenty of nightlife on SoBe as you know.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I was semi-successful. We had a weird sort of quasi-relationship for a couple of months - neither of us wanted a long distance relationship but things kinda started heading that way. Things reached critical mass and we \"stopped talking\". We're still on good terms. We PM each other from time to time, I'm actually holding a postcard I got from her today. This all happened about a year ago, however. Things between us are awkward still because of the feelings involved and the distance between.\n\nWas there a legitimate relationship? No. Did we ever meet? No. I'd still consider it a success though. I met a wonderful person that's still, in a small way, an uplifting part of my life.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I met a girl on FAD that lived 20 minutes or so away from me. We talked for a while but it turned out she was a more than a little crazy, so I'd say the success was minimal.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A little over 3 weeks ago I (male from Iceland) posted in this subreddit. A day later I got a PM from a Canadian girl (who had actually made a post here a few days earlier). At this point we've fallen hard for each other and have decided to meet up in a couple of months.\n\nSo, yeah. Pretty successful.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Also female here and went out with a fella. We sparked online, but in person it fell flat. Rather disappointing for both of us. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not at all. Never had any luck and I'm not even sure why I'm still subscribed to this sub-Reddit. I'm too old and too weird to even be trying anymore. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Specific gravity? Float, sink, float oil on water. Try syrup. Food coloring. Make some crystals out of sugar so you can eat them. Make a volcano - one with a frame, so you can explain the vent, magma chamber, etc. Mix colors together. Get some plaster and make sidewalk chalk. Microwave things as experiments (grapes, marshmallows, etc.). Get a clear bowl, some normal bagged popcorn, and some oil, and let him watch it pop all over the place (cover the bowl so your wife doesn't get pissed). Tons of stuff man, the world is your oyster! ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I think the human race is coming of age, I feel the energy you're talking about and it is so much more than being in your early 20's. You're not alone either, plenty of people feel it. Though it is completely invisible to most of the world. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "This is deffinately your brain maturing. I've started to notice that my thoughts have cleared up greatly after going through a few struggling years of psychological stress. Ever since highschool ended I felt like i'd be dead or homeless or in jail within a few years. Now, i've been through all those shitty situations that you're supposed to go through, (getting into fights with parents or employees, losing your job, losing friends, losing a girlfriend, not being able to meet people as well, being made fun of at a bar or concert, being seen as the awkward penguin). All these things suck but are meant to shake you up so that you can perceive yourself better. Now that I've been through it all I'm literally like \"Let's just see what happens if I say this, or do that\" and without giving a fuck I'm easily the dominate force of my own life, not other people. That's how it used to be. Also, my creativity has increased 10 fold ever since I started going through strong hallucinations on DMT and LSD. The fact that I know nothing about my surroundings has made me go from being an athiest to How the fuck is this shit even possible? Enjoy the ride, my friend.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "It's not just young people. I'll be 39 next Fri, haven't done anything stronger than pot in 5 years and I've been feeling the shift coming for the past 2-3 years. I know what you're talking about.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I feel nothing of the sort. I've come here to say this because I feel like this is the kind of post where self-selection bias comes right into its own: pretty much the only people likely to reply to this post are the ones that feel that they feel \"it\" too. Of course there's no way to be sure that what they're feeling is in any way related to whatever it is you're feeling, let alone that there may be hundreds of people who see this post and silently note that they (like me) don't know what the hell it is you might be talking about.\n\nNot trying to rain on your parade, and I'm happy for you that you feel good, but try not to feel completely vindicated by the replies to this post... It would be very odd if there were nobody out there who felt similarly to you, but that says nothing about interconnectedness of human minds, or that something has changed in human consciousness compared to 10 years ago, 50 years ago, 500 years ago.\n\nIn my humble(ish) opinion.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I hear you, there's a new age dawning. Ride that cusp, meditate, find your bliss (that means find a way to make some money without hating yourself and get rid of materialism), and don't let these naysayers poopoo you feeling your calling.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\"Beyond the words 'beyond words'\" is reminiscent of the closing words of the Heart Sutra: \"Gate gate paragate, parasamgate bodhi svaha,\" translated by Conze as \"gone gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond, O what an awakening, all hail!\"\n\nGo deeper into the vortex, friend.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "This so called change feels so real. It started perhaps a few years ago, but I first confronted some of my friends about it last autumn. Turns out they both been feeling it for a little while, and they both told me they were feeling like they were finally waking up. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Last age it took hundreds of years for things to play out. However, things are moving much faster today. I know it will not be hundreds of years. I am still unsure if it will be in our life times though.\n\nThings are always changing. It never stops. Noticing it now, doesn't mean it wasn't happening earlier. And a new age is like a new year or a new month. Not much happens on the first day of the new year, but at the end of the year we can look back and remember what happened. The same for this age, I suppose.\n\nKeep doing the dance of life. It never stops. It keeps going and going and going. It will drive you to hilarity if you notice the insanity of it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I feel it. It's especially interesting when you were born in 1990 and are coming of age just as this new frontier is in sight. If there was ever a time to live, wouldn't it be right now?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The strange attractor at the end of history, or so it is called by the mathematicians. That's the pull you feel. It's more than just a 'coming of age', it's a coming of time for all of humanity and existence as we know it. Just look at our society at the present moment. Culturally, we are in the dark ages. The last 2 years were the worst actually, for the majority of humanity. But something historic is about to occur. It can only be understood by us, the psychonauts. We are the only ones who understand. I posted [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/Psychonaut/comments/xqnc4/the_paradigm_shift_is_occurring_and_we_are_the/) 10 days ago..", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "93 Chaos Magick is a brilliant advancement in Magical theory and practice. Pete Carroll is a genius in some regards, and the IOT does have some very prominent Occult personalities among it's ranks. Full Stop. But...\n\nThe average IOT member, and more broadly speaking the average ”Chaote”, is going to severely disappoint you for exactly the reasons you gave. Why? Because despite the explicitly stated requisite for hard work to be able to do anything magical (Liber MMM), many see CM as a complete ”fuck you” to structualized magick (it isn't) and hide behind certain Carroll quotes to avoid study and/or work. So where with a sedentary armchair ceremonial magician, grimoire scholar, Thelemite, Golden Dawn, etc. you at least have a common knowledge base or egregore (a la Qabalah or Astrology or Tarot) with CM that's not necessary. It's actually looked down upon a lot of the time. Someone can just say: ”D&D is the composite magical system I work with, and DMing is a dramatic ritual for me, and I don't need a doctrinal magical system to subject my will on the universe, and blah blah blah” and all that's really happening is they want to look like ”teh uber scary life haxxor illuminatiz” instead of just admit to being a basement dweller with a propensity for the Occult and weird.\n\n You have this same problem with every branch of Magick and Occultism, but CM facilitates it a bit more frequently and to a much more intense degree by very nature of the system. \n\nAlso: IOT has been in disarray for years now (note lack of site updates or news bulletins). Membership is small, and interest in chaos magick has been waning since the mid-2000's. As a relevant sidebar: Pete Carroll hasn't been affiliated with IOT since the late 90's early 2000's. \n\nFurthermore, I have been told firsthand by initiates that the membership strictures are much less intense than the A.'.A.'.-like prerequisites listed. And another thing: Chaotes, Discordians, Typhonians, Setians, and any other LHP sect essentially, are very volatile in groups. A lot of schism (sometimes by choice a la discordians), a lot of open petty bickering and open magical warfare on par with the Crowley Mathers Golden Dawn fiasco of yesteryear, but with the added insanity of Chaos Magick (IOT has a lot of this latter, especially because bodies are usually not totally localized but in radii of sometimes several states and hundreds of miles, leading to confusion and bad organization).\n\nIf I come off as seeming negative towards Pete Carroll and Chaos Magick, I'm not. In fact I have a large Chaos Magick streak in me: My preffered mantra is the Bene Geserit littanny against fear, and I have created a group ritual based on a magical formula I believe exists on the Instrumentality sequence from The End of Evangelion. I have successfully created servitors on two seperate occasions, and enjoy sigil magick as an occasional tool. I even have a personal mythos based around Nietzsche and Thus Spake Zarathustra. I also once created a magical oath on poetic form based on the song ”The Cave” by Mumfors and Sons. That all being said, I believe that Chaos Magick without a firmer and more formalized magical base can lead to a lot of bullshit. See Kenneth Grant and the Cult of LAM or the endless rehashing of the Lovecraft mythos by Donald Tyson (the most scholarly yet phony total armchair magician ever). I'm biased, and full disclosure, I'm a Thelemite and an active initiate of the Caliphate OTO; the largest, highest functioning, and in my personal opinion, best, magical order currently in existence by far (let the flaming and butthurt commence). I further believe Thelema to be the greatest and most successful system of personal magical and mystical attainment currently in existence, and feel that Chaos Magick works as a branch of magick when in a Thelemic context.\n\nI may be completely off. You could join IOT, fall in with just the right crowd, and no doubt have an amazing and intense set of initiatic and spiritual expiriences to rival anyone else.\n\nBut, to summarize, based on the concerns you expressed, you're probably in my opinion going to be disappointed.\n\nIn the end, however, Thy Will be done. There is much gold and much dross in any magical order or system (OTO especially on both accounts), and in the majority if cases what you get out will depend greatly on what you put in. I wish you all the best, regardless of where you end up, in your magical adventure.\n\n93, 93/93 -Frater Zarathustra\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "\"is the average IOT member more like a nerdy disillusioned weirdo who just happened to get into the occult instead of Live Action Role Playing or Dungeons and Dragons?\"\n\nI have found this to be 85% true of most chaotes I've met", "score": 6 }, { "body": "IOT NA is the largest active chaos magick order in existence next to the German branch. You really can't pin down the \"average\" chaos magician since everyone does their own thing. One guy could be a total medieval nerd and the next guy could be into chanting \"hare krishna\" for 6 hours over a sigil. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Probs in for a disappointment. \n\nI practice chaos magic, mainly within a LHP context and I put in the hours. By that I mean the hours of sitting still, staring at walls, visualizing objects etc etc. I have found most people do not. Actually I am going so far as most people do not irregardless of them being Chaotes, Thelemites, Golden Dawnsters. Likewise, the people who I have met who practice ecstatic methods, methods that I myself am very fond of, seem to be weaksauce.\n\n\nI think the problem is twofold.\n\n1. People want answers.\n\n2. People want other people to want their answers.\n\nI find that I can't talk about the problems you may find in organized CM without bringing up up Thelema. This is because I see CM as an attempt to rectify the one big problem with the Thelemic system and how most CMs missed the point. \n\nYou see Thelema is great and all, but its problem is that it is Crowley's end and yet it is offered to people as their own means. Crowley traveled the world and studied under a wide variety of spiritual teachers, got immersed in western magick and ultimately synthesized all these experiences into his very own system of attainment. Good for him.\n\nI believe that looking at the anticipation of Thelema is far more important then the system itself. What made big C great was everything that led up to Thelema, not Thelema. Personally I find the Thelema mindnumbing, mainly because I don't want to follow the spiritual footsteps of another and in doing so I feel you miss out on some valuable formative experiences. \n\nThis is what CM tries to fix. It gives us the tools and demands of us the effort to make our own way and forge our own paths, synthesizing our experiences as we go along while attempting to prevent messianic delusions and dogma with varying levels of success. Most Chaotes I find miss this and use CM as an excuse for being inert and calling out those who start to develop as being 'dogmatic'. Equivocating structure with dogma. \n \n\nSo what am I talking about? Well I find most Thelemites to be squares and most CMs to be losers, the kind you talk about with a \"look at me I am doing magick lololol\" attitude. I have checked out a few other groups and its all cardboard tasting bleh (the group dynamics that is, many have very interesting systems, ideas etc).\n\nGo and find out for yourself. \n\n\n\nPS. I sound kinda mean, if some description or jab that I make does not sound like you then it obviously is not about you.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Given a large enough library, you can create any kind of system you want. \n\nEventually you can publish your own conclusions as a stand alone system.\n\nThen you can cross the abyss and leave all the systems behind.\n\nYMMV.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "They're most likely much like you. So consider that before joining. In the words of Groucho Marx, \"I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member\".", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I just got an email saying that my refund will be deposited on my account within the next few days. So I guess people are right when they say aug 16th.\nI have a question though, what is the average that people who live off campus ( not in the dorms) receive? I lived in the dorms last year but wont this year and I am getting a lot more.. It's a bit scary. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Liquid maintains heat (or lack thereof) better than air. The refrigerator should run less often if it's full of stuff than if it's empty.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Find the right sized fridge to accomodate the amount of food you typically store.\n\nIt costs more to operate a larger fridge.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I know that for the freezer, it's best to keep it packed. I've read suggestions of making sure you have ice cube trays, even throw in bottles of water just to keep it as packed as possible. However as for the fridge, it's best to keep it empty. Is it practical? Probably not. I'd love for a chemist to explain in depth.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I will play one main that will do **everything** but have 3 alts for the other 6 crafting disciplines. I think it'll be easier (and cheaper) to have alts who handle the crafting rather then swapping on my main. Then they also can act as mules if need be.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "To jump on what stroubled said, it really doesnt make sense. By the way, Op, your flair is amazing :p", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Alts?! Every game ever I played I looked shortly through the available Character Options and decided in a minute which would be my main Combination.\n\nThis game?! I don't f'ing know! I just can't decide... :/\n\n/firstworldproblems", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Overheating.\n\nDownload speccy and have it visible while you're doing stuff. Take note of the temperatures.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You have the proportions wrong, the vocabulary of english is overwhelmingly Latin based while the GRAMMAR is germanic. Exactly how Persian is still Indo-European despite having an almost unequal distribution of Arabic vocabulary.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "I had a prof in university who once called English a romance language. Other than that I have never heard anyone make this claim and certainly no one in this subreddit (or am I mistaken?). So... why post it here?", "score": 19 }, { "body": "> Spa: el ágil zorro saltó sobre el perro perezoso\n\nMissing a word here.\n\nSpa: el ágil zorro __marrón__ saltó sobre el perro perezoso", "score": 12 }, { "body": "People make the mistake because of the amount of Latin based words we use, but that's just vocabulary, if you're going to categorise languages the best way is by the grammar.\n\nI have a friend who is a Brahui, his language is mental, dravidian language with all sorts of mixtures from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindi, Balochi, English etc depending on where you're from. \n\nTo be honest, I don't really care how people categorise language anyway, I just enjoy learning weird and wonderful stuff. \n\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "As a Classicist, let me tell you that many people believe ALL European languages come from Latin. It's difficult to dissuade them of this. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Just to emphasize that English has very pervasive use of Romance vocabulary in higher registers, much more so than other Germanic languages, here is the first line from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights:\n\nGermanic:\n\n> Eng: Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,\n\n> Ger: Da die Anerkennung der angeborenen Würde und der gleichen und unveräußerlichen Rechte aller Mitglieder der Gemeinschaft der Menschen die Grundlage von Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Frieden in der Welt bildet,\n\n> Dut: Overwegende, dat erkenning van de inherente waardigheid en van de gelijke en onvervreemdbare rechten van alle leden van de mensengemeenschap grondslag is voor de vrijheid, gerechtigheid en vrede in de wereld;\n\n> Dan: Da anerkendelse af den mennesket iboende værdighed og af de lige og ufortabelige rettigheder for alle medlemmer af den menneskelige familie er grundlaget for frihed, retfærdighed og fred i verden,\n\n> Nor: Da anerkjennelsen av menneskeverd og like og umistelige rettigheter for alle medlemmer av menneskeslekten er grunnlaget for frihet, rettferdighet og fred i verden,\n\n> Swe: Enär erkännandet av det inneboende värdet hos alla medlemmar av människosläktet och av deras lika och oförytterliga rättigheter är grundvalen för frihet, rättvisa och fred i världen,\n\nRomance:\n\n> Spa: Considerando que la libertad, la justicia y la paz en el mundo tienen por base el reconocimiento de la dignidad intrínseca y de los derechos iguales e inalienables de todos los miembros de la familia humana,\n\n> Fr: Considérant que la reconnaissance de la dignité inhérente à tous les membres de la famille humaine et de leurs droits égaux et inaliénables constitue le fondement de la liberté, de la justice et de la paix dans le monde,\n\n> Ita: Considerato che il riconoscimento della dignità inerente a tutti i membri della famiglia umana e dei loro diritti, uguali ed inalienabili, costituisce il fondamento della libertà, della giustizia e della pace nel mondo;\n\nI would hazard a guess that the Romance examples are easier to understand for an English native speaker. The following words would be quite opaque:\n\n* Anerkennung/erkenning/anerkendelse/anerkjennelsen/erkännandet\n\n* angeborenen, iboende/inneboende\n\n* unveräußerlichen/oförytterliga, onververemdbare, ufortabelige, umistelige\n\n* Mitglieder, leden, medlemmer/medlemmar\n\n* Frieden/vrede/fred \n\n* Gemeinschaft der Menschen/mensengemeenschap, menneskeslekten/människosläktet\n\nOn the other hand, I don't think any of the content words from the Romance examples present similar levels of difficulty for an educated but monolingual English speaker.", "score": 6 }, { "body": ">Ita: La veloce volpe rossa saltato il cane pigro\n\nLa veloce volpe rossa **saltò** or **ha saltato** il cane pigro \n\nThis still sounds funky, but at least is grammatically correct.\n\n", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Also right after he drops the drink it cuts to a different scene and then right back. Julian is holding a drink when it cuts back to the fight. lol!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In the first or second episode of season one he briefly puts his drink down on a table. He didn't *drop* it, but it's still incredibly rare. \n\nI've seen every episode many times and just noticed this for the first time last night. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "How about [this](http://i.imgur.com/gUU8d.png)?\n\n(From [this](http://i.imgur.com/T1AQ5.png) source image)", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Oh yay you took my suggestion! Sorry for not answering earlier, I was cooking and whatnot.\n\n[But celebratory gnome emote!](http://i.imgur.com/tIZou.png)", "score": 11 }, { "body": "[Gruncle Stan?](http://i.imgur.com/Q62iU.png) (I wanted him in his disco suit but it was hard to get a good image)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've already made [Sheriff Blubbs](http://fav.me/d5a1zyx) and a [Mabel](http://fav.me/d5a5rbx), and I have partial work done on a couple Grunkle Stan (eye patch smile, facepalm), a couple Dippers (thinking with a pen in his mouth, after having his face gnomed) a gnome puking rainbows, Soos after licking fish bait. Oh, and Mabel with the leafblower on her mouth because shut up that's why.\n\nHowever, I'm commissioning/collaborating with another artist on another project and it's taking a bit of time. So, RainbowCrash, I'm sorry I haven't been working on this the last week, but it is still on my to-do list and I'll be back to churning out 1-2 vectors a day once the other project wraps up.\n\nIt's really awesome working on this!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Would it be possible to have a table of smaller emoticons? Obviously, what you can do with small ones is more limited, but I've found in /r/mylittlepony that if you're using a lot of them it's nice to have small ones so your post isn't enormous.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "A lot of people take anything negative being said against the Saint's *very* personally. And by personally I mean that what starts out as friendly trash talk can *quickly* escalate to a physical confrontation. It's a post-Katrina / Superbowl thing that I don't think most people who aren't from here can really understand. You won't have any problems walking around in Skins gear or anything - I would just be mindful of what you say against the Saints.\n\n\nAlso, if you see someone passed out in a Crystal Burger, don't rub your nut sack on them.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I am a huge critic of the ACA, and desperately want it repealed, but I think something is getting lost here in what the doctor told the patient, what the patient told your wife, and what your wife told you. Either that, or he's just trying to do everything he can to get the patient to receive the procedure before he gets on Medicare. Medicare payments are pathetically low compared to commercial group policies, so he may just be trying to coerce him in order to receive a higher payment, which is extremely unethical. I'm more inclined to believe that this isn't exactly what the MD said.\n\nEdit- grammarz", "score": 15 }, { "body": "that is bullshit. The board of health professionals is something that simply discusses what medicare should cover. If it's covered by medicare then it's covered. Moreover, that seems pretty important to me, so even if by some strange reason it IS true, then it would most likely get approved. ", "score": 12 } ]

[ { "body": "You shouldn't. I know you care about your friend. That's incredibly obvious. But if you try to force him to do something like come out and he ends up losing his family and friends he will resent you. You can't make people choose something like that. They have to want it for themselves. \n\nYou have already expressed how you feel about everything. That's good. Keep doing that. Friends should be honest with each other. But that is as far as it should go IMO. Feel free to bring up the movies if you want since they are on your Netflix account but do it privately. Who knows, he might just be waiting until he gets and education and then moves out. That's exactly what I would do if I were gay and had unsupportive parents. You're a good friend and he is lucky to have you. Good luck.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "For anyone wondering, here's a brief rundown of the Yahoo! game that I've posted elsewhere:\n\nThe biggest difference from the official game is no transfer limits. You just pick the best 11 that fits your budget for the week. This is great because you learn a lot and really have to keep up with the match ups, form, and tactics. Stoke City playing a team vulnerable in the air this week? Might be a good time to pick Crouch. Arsenal playing the league's worst team? Try to anticipate their starting lineup and cram as many Gunners into your team as possible.\n\nBasically, you get 100 points to spend on 11 players whose values are set by popularity and performance. If a player is new to the league or having a rough patch in form, their value is lower. If the player does well and racks up points (also a nice aspect of Yahoo... you get points for stuff other than goals, assists and clean sheets... like successful crosses, shots on target, and blocks), then their value goes up. This adds an additional element of strategy. What if you picked up Rooney on the cheap during a dip in form, then he gets injured after lighting up the score sheet for a few weeks? Do you keep him in hope that he only misses one game, or do you drop your discount on him and pick another striker?\n\nIt's definitely a hands-on, more time-intensive fantasy game as you'll be tinkering with your lineup based on roster and match up news up until the weekly deadline. (Just wait until there's a heavy snow and you're up all night trying to figure out which matches are postponed...)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Are you eating 1200 calories of nutrient-dense, filling food that provides your daily vitamins and minerals and a good amount of protein and fibre? There is a big difference between that and 1200 calories of random junk. The less you eat on a daily basis, the more important it is to make careful dietary choices.\n\nNobody can assess whether 1200 calories is an appropriate intake for you unless you post your age, sex, height, weight, and any exercise routine you follow.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Unless we know your age/weight/gender/height, that's a really tough question to answer.\n\nBut ultimately, no. It's not starving you. \n\nHowever, what you eat, and how often you eat? Those are going to have a major impact on how you *feel*.\n\nMFP is pretty good, but their macros are a load of crap, for me. It has me at 35g protein (half of what I need to feel okay), 50g fat (about right), and 400g carbs (noooo way). Oh, and 15g fiber! HA!!! No, I need about 35g fiber a day to feel good.\n\nYour food intake shouldn't make you feel like shit, dude. If you feel starved all the time, up your protein and up your fiber. Drink way more water - I hit about 120 oz a day. Choose things you like, and that keep you feeling full. \n\nBased on the food you provided to bob_mcbob, I'd say you need a lot more protein. And if you're a guy, you need more protein than us ladies. \n\nI'm on MFP - if you want to add me, feel free! =) This stuff is so hard to figure out, because it's different for everyone. What works for me might not work for you, so you do have to play around with it.\n\nBut you shouldn't ever have to feel like you're starving, or that you're not eating enough. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I eat 1000-1200 calories of nutritious food like vegetables and meats (chicken, beef). I also take a multivitamin everyday. I've never felt better in my life and feel like I've changed my life by doing this.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If any of you are also US Soccer fans, we're trying to start an American Outlaws chapter. I'm sure House of Beer will be great for Premier League games, but we've been going to Mothers because they've been very good to us and even showed the Guatemala game in June that was on PPV for free. They always leave spaces for us.\n\nI'll definitely be there tonight for USA v. Mexico.\n\nFacebook page to like here: https://www.facebook.com/AOGainesville", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I was hoping this was a suggestion for an engineer class... that used dispensers as turrets with that \"turret dispenser plugin.\"\n\ni left disappointed", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "[Here they are](http://imgur.com/a/FjAZE) I uploaded them all to my imgur and posted it on this reddit.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "I can only imagine. Thanks for sharing your beautiful moment. Sorry I am unable to help, i don't have the necessary hook ups.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Oh man i cried like nothing else when they finished with that song at the Tomorrowland festival this year, that moment just made my summer.\nBeauty like that makes life worth living. Cheers <3", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Self posts don't grant link Karma, so if you post a link to another website, you get Karma, but any upvotes you get here don't count.\n\nIf that didn't help, /r/TheoryOfReddit might be a better place to ask.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's normally a 1:1 ratio, but when the moon is in certain phases, the karma gnomes come out and randomly feed on excess karma on the site. The higher the karma, the more of it gets scooped into the greedy little gnomes' mouths like spunk off a porn star's face. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Seeing an amazing movie. It would probably be Lord of the Rings. Fuck, the feeling when you left the theatre after watching Return of the King and knowing it was over. And you wished you could just wipe your mind and go experience it all over again.\n\nThat, and being able to read Harry Potter (or see the movies) for the first time all over again. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Heck no! They don't care what they spout, even if it's false, since the cancer causing ad still hasnt been detracted. This will just get dirtier and dirtier. Pathetic.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "I detail cars for a living, we charge 60 bucks for the full on headlight restoration job. Our kit uses a drill (pneumatic in my case) and 4 grades of sandpaper.\n600 grit,\n800 grit, \n1500 grit, and \n2000 grit.\nOnce I've sanded harshest to softest, I have a special compound to buff with (with a small wool pad), and then a polish to use with a foam pad. I follow up with a coat of sealant and they're LITERALLY as good as new.\nTakes about an hour's work.\n\nIn my opinion, the kits you purchase at an auto parts store are simply not \"up to snuff\". IMO, stop at a reputable dealer nearby and ask them to do the work for you.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "You won't find anything that plugs into the phone directly, but you can pick up a [SIP Audio Alerter](http://www.algosolutions.com/products/Audible-and-Visual-Alerting/8180-sip-audio-alerter.html). There are a few products like this, and they should configure as a standard SIP device with an extension.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You can get jellybean now if you root, either AOKP or CM10 or Paranoidandroid (though they don't have touchwiz). But if you wanted the stock one you wouldn't (if someone made a CWM flashable version) but you would lose root if you did. Someone will make a rooted version of the official update but it might take a day or two.\n\nThere really isn't a downside to rooting (as you can always unroot), its pretty hard to mess the galaxy series up in any serious way. If you are worried about something happening then you can root without causing the flashcounter to trip but thats more difficult and takes more time. ", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Alright. \n\n*raises knife*\n\nTNS ASSEMBLE\n\n*a chorus of de-cloaks rings out as the members of the nova shadowbolts materialize out of thin air*\n\n[](/sbsmug \"We got this\")", "score": 11 } ]

[ { "body": "if it ain't originally 300, it ain't gonna come out lookin' good\n\n(unless you recreate it in vector)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The production values exponentially increase. The acting also gets better, but it still has moments every so often. Keep with it I promise it gets to be amazing very quickly.", "score": 19 }, { "body": "There's going to be a few episodes with these annoying aliens that love to fart, but if you make it through those you will see production values increase dramatically over the seasons. If you would like some encouragement in regards to how great it will become, watch 'Blink' as that's a terrific episode and I love showing it to potential new Whovians. Or maybe try out Matt Smith's first episode.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Copy-paste from another thread I posted in recently:\n\nI've always forewarned people that the opening 4 or 5 episodes are, in my opinion, really poor (with episode 3 a slight exception, that's not bad). But from episode 6 onwards it picks up significantly. Dalek, Father's Day, The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances are all classics, and the finale is excellent too. \nSeries one is also by far the most campy and tacky when it comes to effects and audio etc. Stick with it, it'll be well worth it. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Season 2 has better production. Season 3 has even better. Season 4 has even better. Season 5 feels like you're watching an entirely different show, the production is so different. It's smoother and shinier and feels like it was produced in the States. \n\nBasically it feels like they just get more money every season, and they spend it well. \n\nThe campiness is the draw for most people, if you're looking for a serious adult type of sci-fi, you're not gonna be happy. Remember that it's technically a childrens show, and the humor and silliness is part of the legacy and part of the draw. It slowly decreases with the seasons though, and by season 6 there is almost no campiness anymore. \n\nIn my humble opinion. ", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "Harbaugh likes competition and Reed has something to prove. There is no harm keeping him around at this point in the season. Soon enough NFL teams will have to start trimming down their rosters. I would be pretty surprised if he makes the team considering the other receivers that seem to be ahead of him.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Are you able to fully retract your foreskin? Are you able to directly stimulate your glans once it's pulled back? ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Happens to the best of us man. My first BJ was like a goat eating grass. It's all uphill from here buddy", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The real secret to a good blow job is to start with licking his dick to get it wet and not being afraid of drooling a bit. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Capitalism is where the means of production are privately owned. The means of production are basically phyiscal capital, i.e., factories. So Capitalism, by itself, isn't really a social movement. However, there are a lot of social movements that are associated with Capitalism. The idea of private property, for example, is absolutely central to Capitalism (can't have privately owned means of production without private property). It is also strongly associated with voluntary exchange markets (free markets) and competition with profit as the main motivator.\n\nSocialism is where the means of production are publically owned - owned by the government or some other \"collective\". Private property still exists within Socialism, but the physical capital in the economy is nationalized. Note, however, that with Socialism you can still have voluntary exchange markets, private property and competition depending on the political and market structure, though Socialism is often associated with doing things for the \"greater good\" rather than for profit.\n\nSo yes, as an economist I think it is perfectly fair to compare the two. I don't even really need to bring in the social movements and associations with each idea to compare them - I just want to know which is \"better\" by whatever criteria I choose. \n\nIf we're talking purely philosophically speaking, then we're not just considering economics but also political science, history, philosophy, sociology and who knows what else. *I would also say that yes, Capitalism counts as a social phenomena, though maybe not a recent \"movement\" per se because it has much older roots.* Just as Socialism is often associated with equality, positive rights (such as the right to education/living standards) and anti-exploitation, Capitalism is often associated with individualism, negative rights (right to not be murdered/to not be enslaved) and freedom. \n\nHopefully I'm not rambling.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I think that while you've accounted for social inequality in most of the ways it usually manifests itself (e.g. race), you haven't addressed one of the most prevalent – intergenerational inequality. Simply put, capitalism, even assuming a fair and transparent market structure, does not address the wildly different circumstances into which people are born. Capitalism may not technically care if you're black or white, but it surely your education, parentage, and other inborn factors make an enormous difference in the odds of your economic success. I would argue that capitalism is also a system that disproportionately values the present/short-term over the long-term.\n\nThe other criticism that comes to mind is that capitalism inevitably involves the accumulation of capital in few, concentrated hands, who will then inevitably use their means to influence the system in their favor. \n\nNow, neither of these critiques are *exclusive* to capitalism, nor are they necessarily reasons to reject it as a system. Not to mention I don't think there are any examples of \"pure\" capitalism in use today, if there ever were – every economy/society is a mixture of the free market and government/societal intervention, it's just a matter of degree.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Something else interesting that happened in that little exchange with the doctor was that we learned Jesse has an allergy to some drug. Chances Walt/someone else learns this and uses it? Maybe the doctor? Mike? ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "> As far as I'm concerned, all professional sports (okay, maybe not curling) are rife with doping.\n\nNot just curling, but a [positive test in wheelchair curling](http://wheelchaircurler.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/cca-resonses-to-jim-armstrong-doping.html)!", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "That guy sounds like a narcissist. Talk it out. Be honest, see if going to a counselor together will help. Don't bottle the feelings up and try to deal with it yourself. You will need to tell her that it will take time to get over this and that you want to do this with her.\n\nAlso, seeing a therapist about your family being torn apart might help since it sounds like you have unresolved issues about that.\n\nEdit: The fact that she is willing to share her faults with you and be honest means that it is worth trying to resolve.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "It sounds like she was taken advantage of by this other, crappy dude. Especially since he assured her his relationship was 'open'. \nShe [unwittingly, by the sounds of it] got involved in a shitty situation, and felt awful about it, and made her best efforts to stop it as soon as she fully realised what the situation was. \nIt's something in the past. Don't hold it against her.\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Two things to remember OP: \n\nOne, she didn't cheat. I haven't seen any mention in your post about how she cheated on her own boyfriend at the time to be with this guy.\n\nTwo, it happened before you had even met. Look at it from her point of view: I'm sure you've got things in your past that you're not proud of but as long as you're not doing those things to her and you're treating her right, should that really have an impact on your relationship together now?\n\nIt's in the past, let it stay there.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This has also happened to me. Never pre-ordered from Best Buy again. \n\nActually, I can't remember the last I bought at all since then from Best Buy.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I don't even know why you gave them another chance. \nMy friend spent 30 minutes in the parking lot telling people to leave the other day when they dicked him over on a warranty he bought. \nfriends don't let friends shop at best buy", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Don't pre-order from Best Buy, I honestly feel like a pre-order is one of those things where it is 9 times out of 10 inexcusable to fuck up", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Plug your vita into your PS3 and use the media manager app to transfer your stuff from the old card to the new card. Pretty simple process.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Visit Turkey!! Friendly culture, fantastic food, Greek/Roman culture up the wazoo, fabulous beaches, great shopping. It's a beautiful place and there is something there for everyone. You could spend your entire trip on a beach, or touring ancient ruins, or shopping, whatever you like. Lived there for 7 years when my dad was in the military; would love to go back some day. We were in Izmir for that time and I was able to visit that part of the country and the coast a lot. Never made it to Istanbul, but I've heard it is incredible.\n\nEdit: Yeah, it's a cheap Google search, but lots of info here. Kusadasi is a great coastal area and you'll find lots of ruins/etc nearby as well. I highly recommend Ephesus (also called Efes), it's a MUST if you go to Turkey. http://www.goturkey.com/", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Last year, me and one friend travelled across europe by train. \nhttp://www.b-europe.com/Travel/World/InterRail/InterRail%20Global\nI'm a Belgian though, I don't know if Americans can buy this. Definitely worthwile though.\n\nI loved Rome. It's a fantastic city, really my all-time favorite destination. I would definitely recommend you go there. I also loved Berlin, didn't care much for London and Paris. \n\nI can't really give an estimate on pricing, the differences between countries and even in countries are enormous, it really depends on where you're going and and the quality of hotels you're looking for. In Rome I stayed in a crappy hotel next to the station, but it was dirt cheap. :) \n\nAbout the nature, again the differences between countries are huge. We're talking about an entire continent here after all. There's a lot of beautiful architecture, again pretty much everywhere. :)\n\nLastly, English should suffice, especially among younger generations English is well known. The only countries where I think you'll really hit a language barrier are Italy and France but ofcourse it never hurts to know some basic sentences like how to get directions and such. Don't let the languages scare you, in a lot of countries and especially among -30 year olds English is pretty much the second language.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "**England:** very pretty, friendly people. Street signs often don't explain what they mean, speed limit signs are just numbers, they don't say speed limit, for example. London, at least when I was there, was easily the dirtiest city I've ever been in. Covered in a brown bubble and I had to hold my shirt over my nose every time I went out because it smelled horrible. The country side is fantastic. Food is comparatively bland from America. Edit: The train system was pretty horrible as I remember. We missed our plane because the train broke down on the way. Hopefully this has been improved since, as this was in '99.\n\n**Austria:** Lots of beer. Fantastic countryside. Food is slightly more flavorful, lots of meat and pastries. Wasn't that hard to find our way around. A few basic phrases and words will orient you easily, and many people speak at least a little English. The churches are amazing! Especially in Old Town (at least in Innsbruck, where we were). Chocolate is exquisite. Seriously. Chocolate shop is where it's at. Salzburg is pretty cool too, though I spent less time there.\n\n**France:** Had an unfair advantage as we stayed with natives who were family friends. Some of the sites of Paris are really cool, but I highly recommend visiting Versailles and the palace. Once every 4 years I think they put on a show in the palace gardens that reenacts the building of the palace. Not sure if they still do that, but if you can get in on it it's incredible. Be wary of the food. For France, please know your menu. They do eat things there that the American stomach cannot handle, much like if you tried to drink tapwater in Mexico. Raw and undercooked meat, for example.\n\n**Italy:** Fantastic art. Prime tourist spots will be ridiculously expensive. Streets are small and close quartered, best to either walk or take a taxi, but we did get shortchanged by our taxi driver, so be careful. Italy was the one place in Europe I did not get hit on. We think this was because I have dark hair and looked like a native. My mother, however, was blonde and got groped in the street.\n\n**Germany:** Didn't like. There seemed to be an issue with crime, lots of graffiti, smoke stacks creating haze. Could have just been where we stayed though. Otherwise much like Austria in orienting yourself.\n\nIt's been about 10 years since I've been any of these places, so there may be some changes, but these were my experiences. I've been more places, various Caribbean islands and such so I can offer more if interested, but you seemed mostly interested in Western Europe.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's called 'Hypnic myoclonia' It's just a muscle contraction in the first stage of sleep, I get it all the time! ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "My mom always told me it was a leftover instinct from when we used to sleep in trees.\n\nObviously falling out of the tree you were sleeping in was a really dangerous thing, so our bodies are really really sensitive to any perceived falling sensation when you're trying to sleep.\n\nDo I have science to back that up? No, not at all. It's just a hypothesis.", "score": 3 } ]