no, that can be better accomplished by some simple exercises that you can perform in the privacy of your own home! no pills, no products, just a simple exercise that you perform for at least fifteen minutes a day and you can increase your size by over 30%!
don't forget to tunnel through this mountain using a needle, move the water in this full well to that dry one using an eyedropper, and move this other mountain somewhere over there using a pair of tweezers (anyone else read The Phantom Tollbooth as a kid?)
what if you know someone with asperger's, who has once been diagnosed with it, who went for a second opinion because they didn't like it, got the second opinion to agree they didn't have it, yet very obviously has it? the guy's obnoxious to deal with, but I feel so damn sorry for him that it's hard to do more to get him to go away than giant hints that he just doesn't get.
Hey, this guy found a geeky kid he feels sorry for and possibly empathizes with, decides that he would like to *help* this kid, and you're dissing that he feels a need to get involved?
People helping other people that they don't absolutely have to help is part of what society is based upon. in his wish to help the kid, this guy demonstrates his own good social skills in that rather than ignoring that the kid has a problem (he wants socialization and can't get it, I call that a problem) he sought advice. if people decided to stop getting involved in what was "not their business" we would never have any stories of good samaritans.
What a fsked place the world would be if everyone thought like that.
while those other kids need help with their social skills as well, this guy is limited to trying to help one person feel a little less out of place in the world. no, he hasn't asked for help, but it sounds like he doesn't even understand what he needs help with, much less how or who to ask. Offer something more constructive or move on.
damn, I wish you'd been in my high school, as my plans usually were simple ones that dealt with previously existing frameworks & devices and had to be complete, starting with a money-making phase and ending with the domination.
luckily I knew some much older geeky guys who enjoyed reading them and commenting on what would make them better.
Having a person to help flesh out specifics or gadgets that would enable me to move beyond existing devices would have been interesting. But, with my luck you prolly would never have met me as I camped out under the desks in the library. The librarians wanted to know when I was bringing a tent and sleeping bag. and I lent books to many I have yet to collect, hmm...
On the other hand, I'm really very understanding of almost all viewpoints, so I understood fully why no one else in my school was interested. that didn't mean I was happy about it.
yea, I was reading that thinking "right. I'm sure that's the real reason.
On the other hand, I've yet to meet a dad who couldn't manage to ensure that he was doing less than half of the total stinky diapers, often by volunteering on the ones he knew wouldn't smell...
We rejected some mascaras from Sally Ride. She was the first American female astronaut and we tested a lot of things for her."
I have seen several books of the missions Sally Ride was on, and they all included many pictures. I'd like to see you tell a woman that you're going to take pictures of her, show these pictures to millions of people, and not allow her to take up at least one tube of lipstick and one of mascara.
the article says that they have a panel of 4 judges for every sniff test, so it is more than likely that they have many, and losing one shouldn't a problem. they also said that they have a nurse check out their noses if they have a cold, so I imagine they have all sorts of backup plans should every panel member turn up sniffling. plus this sounds like the kind of thing that is done well in advance.
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In this case, they meant that his sense of smell was flawless, in that he was never off. From the articles I'd say that he was compared to the average human reaction, or the other people testing the odors.
At no point in the articles does it describe an odor as "flawless". Wired just states that they were 771 "official" missions, and the only one to list them as flawless is the weblog cited.
In middle & highschool, I was the girl who ate lunch in the library, physics, or math room. The librarians wanted to know when I was moving in and the chemistry teacher had me take over his class for a week. I met many guys who also hung out in these locations.
These guys were dating non-geek girls who were popular, yes, but were also cheating on the guys. These guys asked me for relationship advice but never thought of me as a person to date.
I was never asked out. I never had a date. I finally screwed up my courage and asked some of them out. One didn't understand me, one already had a girlfriend and two said no. I am not hideously ugly; a bit overweight (but with nice tracks of land to counterbalance), short, blonde with blue eyes. I don't go out to bars, don't drink, don't go to school dances (altho my mom forced me to go to my prom) and my social status was "if you need homework help, she's nice" (not kidding about this one, apparently one of my mom's friends asked the cheerleaders if they knew me and that was what they said).
I went across the country to check out potential colleges and met and was asked out by a guy (computer programmer for the chem dept) on the first day. We dated for a year, over which time two different guys asked me out (I eventually said yes to one of them and we've been dating now for a year).
Now, tell me, did the guys grow up or was it the change in coasts? I sure didn't change. Maybe the geeky guys' biological clocks had finally woken them up to the fact that girls who cheat on them and are interested in social status don't make good long-term partners.
personally, I have absolutely no idea what to get for my bf, and I read/. a lot. on the other hand, he also reads it and has no idea what to get for me either.
besides, the $100 limit she posted rules out most of the really really cool stuff and starts getting her into the range of stuff that if he really wanted it he would have gotten it for himself.
I have less money to play with and am racking my brain to think of something creative that doesn't involve sex because we're both in college and both have roommates. planning that sort of thing is difficult.
Personally, I prefer minesweeper and tetris, tho usually those are not multiplayer. additionally, I don't think my bf would really want to play them against me, since last time I played on his computer I destroyed his high scores.
My biggest problem with FPS games is that I die too early and too often for it to be interesting enough for me to gain necessary experience to play for longer than five minutes. I think this guy would be better off finding a game he likes where "dying" is a learning experience and not a game over. I've found that this is rather typical among other girls.
Racing games are fun but would not allow for much conversation except between races, but as many previous posts have noted, this kind of interaction would be more for feeling like the other is close by, so a racing game might work as well. Preferably one where crashing just means that you've slowed to a stop and have to regain speed.
And yea, I have played hearts enough that I could trounce my bf, but freecell or spider are such better card games. again, non-multiplayer.
I'm not ticked about the amount they hassle the geeks, I'm ticked that they didn't catch my needle nose pliers, soldering iron, screw driver, and biology probe that I normally carry in my front backpack pocket, forgot to take out when heading home from college, and found still there in the front pocket when I got there.
but they found and confiscated the blunt-nosed kids safety scissors I had in the main pocket (also forgotten when I'd packed, I was rushed)
personally, I wear a vest and just stuff everything that I'll need easy access to in the nice big pockets. wallet, ticket, change, cell phone, pda, mp3 player, keys; all end up in the vest. I get to the table and sling my vest and jacket in a bin with my shoes.
besides, my jeans don't have enough pockets anyways
In 1960, Joseph Kittinger set a record for fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, as well as highest parachute jump and longest freefall. He reached speeds of 614 mph (982 km/hr) and survived the attempt to make other jumps throughout his life.
Regular skydivers who dive head-down with arms and legs tucked in for more streamlining have achieved speeds of 180 mi/h (290 kph) from average skydiving heights.
for any interested, here's the original article this troll stole:
Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest
November 20, 2003
A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.
"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.
"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."
Mr Popov said the director of the shop organising this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 litres of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.
Russians drink the equivalent of 15 litres of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.
Making temporary copies
8. - (1) After the heading "General" appearing before section 29 there shall be inserted -
" 28A Making of temporary copies
Copyright in a literary work, other than a computer program or a database, or in a dramatic, musical or artistic work, the typographical arrangement of a published edition, a sound recording or a film, is not infringed by the making of a temporary copy which is transient or incidental, which is an integral and essential part of a technological process and the sole purpose of which is to enable -
(a) a transmission of the work in a network between third parties by an intermediary; or
(b) a lawful use of the work;
and which has no independent economic significance.".
admittedly just the amendment, I'm sure there's more for anyone who wants to slog through everything, but I think the parent of this has a point. It really does look like making a copy for backup is legal.
why do we have to take it at face value that the machines need the energy from humans at all? if they were going about more and more drastic measures to shut down the machines, then it might help the machines' agenda to have almost all the humans plugged into the ultimate video game. But then, of course, you run into the problem of "why don't they just kill the humans off entirely"
Let's say you don't believe that the humans are necessary at all. clearly the machines have no problem with killing off humans one by one or by the thousands. what do they have against killing off the entire human race?
perhaps the answer to the question of "why don't they kill off the humans" and "why don't we see any other machines" is the same.
perhaps the machines realise that without humans they are purposeless. with humans around they have a purpose: to harvest, nurture, trick, kill, and recycle the humans. without humans, what purpose do the machines have? are they going to peacefully continue to colonize earth once the humans are gone? what's the point? they could go out into the galaxy in quest of other races to conquer, but sooner or later they will run out of other races.
The machines need humans, but they need tamer ones than the ones willing to sacrifice themselves to kill machines. so all those crazies are packed off to zion, where they only encounter a tiny subset of the machine population, whose sole purpose is target practice for zionites. meanwhile the machines create more and newer machines to cater to the needs of the tame humans. Even the new ending, with all the humans who want out being let out, will give the machines opportunities to design and create and exist as machines that serve these newly-freed humans.
psh, you have it easy
Cornell used to charge a bit over $160 per semester, now they stick $200 for the year into tuition, just for room connection. no clue how much of my tuition goes to the labs, etc
Was I the only one who read:
Another option would be to use the courts to go after customers here in the U.S. that might soon try to buy Terfenol and its products from the Chinese.
and thought "RIAA"?
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to be grammatically correct, should it be "different from" or "different than"? I always thought it was different from.
no, that can be better accomplished by some simple exercises that you can perform in the privacy of your own home! no pills, no products, just a simple exercise that you perform for at least fifteen minutes a day and you can increase your size by over 30%!
don't forget to tunnel through this mountain using a needle, move the water in this full well to that dry one using an eyedropper, and move this other mountain somewhere over there using a pair of tweezers (anyone else read The Phantom Tollbooth as a kid?)
what if you know someone with asperger's, who has once been diagnosed with it, who went for a second opinion because they didn't like it, got the second opinion to agree they didn't have it, yet very obviously has it? the guy's obnoxious to deal with, but I feel so damn sorry for him that it's hard to do more to get him to go away than giant hints that he just doesn't get.
Hey, this guy found a geeky kid he feels sorry for and possibly empathizes with, decides that he would like to *help* this kid, and you're dissing that he feels a need to get involved?
People helping other people that they don't absolutely have to help is part of what society is based upon. in his wish to help the kid, this guy demonstrates his own good social skills in that rather than ignoring that the kid has a problem (he wants socialization and can't get it, I call that a problem) he sought advice. if people decided to stop getting involved in what was "not their business" we would never have any stories of good samaritans.
What a fsked place the world would be if everyone thought like that.
while those other kids need help with their social skills as well, this guy is limited to trying to help one person feel a little less out of place in the world. no, he hasn't asked for help, but it sounds like he doesn't even understand what he needs help with, much less how or who to ask. Offer something more constructive or move on.
damn, I wish you'd been in my high school, as my plans usually were simple ones that dealt with previously existing frameworks & devices and had to be complete, starting with a money-making phase and ending with the domination.
luckily I knew some much older geeky guys who enjoyed reading them and commenting on what would make them better.
Having a person to help flesh out specifics or gadgets that would enable me to move beyond existing devices would have been interesting. But, with my luck you prolly would never have met me as I camped out under the desks in the library. The librarians wanted to know when I was bringing a tent and sleeping bag. and I lent books to many I have yet to collect, hmm...
On the other hand, I'm really very understanding of almost all viewpoints, so I understood fully why no one else in my school was interested. that didn't mean I was happy about it.
yea, I was reading that thinking "right. I'm sure that's the real reason.
On the other hand, I've yet to meet a dad who couldn't manage to ensure that he was doing less than half of the total stinky diapers, often by volunteering on the ones he knew wouldn't smell...
from the longer article:
"What kind of things have you rejected?
We rejected some mascaras from Sally Ride. She was the first American female astronaut and we tested a lot of things for her."
I have seen several books of the missions Sally Ride was on, and they all included many pictures. I'd like to see you tell a woman that you're going to take pictures of her, show these pictures to millions of people, and not allow her to take up at least one tube of lipstick and one of mascara.
the article says that they have a panel of 4 judges for every sniff test, so it is more than likely that they have many, and losing one shouldn't a problem. they also said that they have a nurse check out their noses if they have a cold, so I imagine they have all sorts of backup plans should every panel member turn up sniffling. plus this sounds like the kind of thing that is done well in advance.
In this case, they meant that his sense of smell was flawless, in that he was never off. From the articles I'd say that he was compared to the average human reaction, or the other people testing the odors.
At no point in the articles does it describe an odor as "flawless". Wired just states that they were 771 "official" missions, and the only one to list them as flawless is the weblog cited.
I disagree.
In middle & highschool, I was the girl who ate lunch in the library, physics, or math room. The librarians wanted to know when I was moving in and the chemistry teacher had me take over his class for a week. I met many guys who also hung out in these locations.
These guys were dating non-geek girls who were popular, yes, but were also cheating on the guys. These guys asked me for relationship advice but never thought of me as a person to date.
I was never asked out. I never had a date. I finally screwed up my courage and asked some of them out. One didn't understand me, one already had a girlfriend and two said no. I am not hideously ugly; a bit overweight (but with nice tracks of land to counterbalance), short, blonde with blue eyes. I don't go out to bars, don't drink, don't go to school dances (altho my mom forced me to go to my prom) and my social status was "if you need homework help, she's nice" (not kidding about this one, apparently one of my mom's friends asked the cheerleaders if they knew me and that was what they said).
I went across the country to check out potential colleges and met and was asked out by a guy (computer programmer for the chem dept) on the first day. We dated for a year, over which time two different guys asked me out (I eventually said yes to one of them and we've been dating now for a year).
Now, tell me, did the guys grow up or was it the change in coasts? I sure didn't change. Maybe the geeky guys' biological clocks had finally woken them up to the fact that girls who cheat on them and are interested in social status don't make good long-term partners.
personally, I have absolutely no idea what to get for my bf, and I read /. a lot. on the other hand, he also reads it and has no idea what to get for me either.
besides, the $100 limit she posted rules out most of the really really cool stuff and starts getting her into the range of stuff that if he really wanted it he would have gotten it for himself.
I have less money to play with and am racking my brain to think of something creative that doesn't involve sex because we're both in college and both have roommates. planning that sort of thing is difficult.
Personally, I prefer minesweeper and tetris, tho usually those are not multiplayer. additionally, I don't think my bf would really want to play them against me, since last time I played on his computer I destroyed his high scores.
My biggest problem with FPS games is that I die too early and too often for it to be interesting enough for me to gain necessary experience to play for longer than five minutes. I think this guy would be better off finding a game he likes where "dying" is a learning experience and not a game over. I've found that this is rather typical among other girls.
Racing games are fun but would not allow for much conversation except between races, but as many previous posts have noted, this kind of interaction would be more for feeling like the other is close by, so a racing game might work as well. Preferably one where crashing just means that you've slowed to a stop and have to regain speed.
And yea, I have played hearts enough that I could trounce my bf, but freecell or spider are such better card games. again, non-multiplayer.
I used knoppix to rescue my data when my school laptop with xp refused to boot windows at all.
Next time I plan on testing out my new copy of mandrake move.
I'm not ticked about the amount they hassle the geeks, I'm ticked that they didn't catch my needle nose pliers, soldering iron, screw driver, and biology probe that I normally carry in my front backpack pocket, forgot to take out when heading home from college, and found still there in the front pocket when I got there.
but they found and confiscated the blunt-nosed kids safety scissors I had in the main pocket (also forgotten when I'd packed, I was rushed)
personally, I wear a vest and just stuff everything that I'll need easy access to in the nice big pockets. wallet, ticket, change, cell phone, pda, mp3 player, keys; all end up in the vest. I get to the table and sling my vest and jacket in a bin with my shoes.
besides, my jeans don't have enough pockets anyways
In 1960, Joseph Kittinger set a record for fastest speed by a human through the atmosphere, as well as highest parachute jump and longest freefall. He reached speeds of 614 mph (982 km/hr) and survived the attempt to make other jumps throughout his life.
Regular skydivers who dive head-down with arms and legs tucked in for more streamlining have achieved speeds of 180 mi/h (290 kph) from average skydiving heights.
for any interested, here's the original article this troll stole:
Russian dies after winning vodka-drinking contest
November 20, 2003
A vodka-drinking competition in a southern Russian town ended in tragedy with the winner dead and several runners-up in intensive care.
"The competition lasted 30, perhaps 40 minutes and the winner downed three half-litre bottles. He was taken home by taxi but died within 20 minutes," said Roman Popov, a prosecutor pursuing the case in the town of Volgodonsk.
"Five contestants ended up in intensive care. Those not in hospital turned up the next day, ostensibly for another drink."
Mr Popov said the director of the shop organising this month's contest had been charged with manslaughter. He had offered 10 litres of vodka to the competitor drinking the most in the shortest time.
Russians drink the equivalent of 15 litres of pure alcohol per head annually, one of the highest rates in the world. Some experts estimate one in seven Russians is an alcoholic.
Reuters
Making temporary copies 8. - (1) After the heading "General" appearing before section 29 there shall be inserted -
" 28A Making of temporary copies Copyright in a literary work, other than a computer program or a database, or in a dramatic, musical or artistic work, the typographical arrangement of a published edition, a sound recording or a film, is not infringed by the making of a temporary copy which is transient or incidental, which is an integral and essential part of a technological process and the sole purpose of which is to enable -
(a) a transmission of the work in a network between third parties by an intermediary; or
(b) a lawful use of the work;
and which has no independent economic significance.".
admittedly just the amendment, I'm sure there's more for anyone who wants to slog through everything, but I think the parent of this has a point. It really does look like making a copy for backup is legal.
why do we have to take it at face value that the machines need the energy from humans at all? if they were going about more and more drastic measures to shut down the machines, then it might help the machines' agenda to have almost all the humans plugged into the ultimate video game. But then, of course, you run into the problem of "why don't they just kill the humans off entirely"
Let's say you don't believe that the humans are necessary at all. clearly the machines have no problem with killing off humans one by one or by the thousands. what do they have against killing off the entire human race?
perhaps the answer to the question of "why don't they kill off the humans" and "why don't we see any other machines" is the same.
perhaps the machines realise that without humans they are purposeless. with humans around they have a purpose: to harvest, nurture, trick, kill, and recycle the humans. without humans, what purpose do the machines have? are they going to peacefully continue to colonize earth once the humans are gone? what's the point? they could go out into the galaxy in quest of other races to conquer, but sooner or later they will run out of other races.
The machines need humans, but they need tamer ones than the ones willing to sacrifice themselves to kill machines. so all those crazies are packed off to zion, where they only encounter a tiny subset of the machine population, whose sole purpose is target practice for zionites. meanwhile the machines create more and newer machines to cater to the needs of the tame humans. Even the new ending, with all the humans who want out being let out, will give the machines opportunities to design and create and exist as machines that serve these newly-freed humans.
my $0.02
but yea, flimsy plot hole.
psh, you have it easy Cornell used to charge a bit over $160 per semester, now they stick $200 for the year into tuition, just for room connection. no clue how much of my tuition goes to the labs, etc
Was I the only one who read: Another option would be to use the courts to go after customers here in the U.S. that might soon try to buy Terfenol and its products from the Chinese. and thought "RIAA"?