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Hmm, good point, Bob. A bit garish, eh?
Let's try something more subdued. Still pretty busy for a flag, but smoother.
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Or is it the other way around? Ha ha
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ha ha
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Hmm, interesting. I'll look into it.
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@Helbrecht: Yes, I have several other projects in mind. Namely, a chess set and some more practical automotive parts. I'm also kicking around plans for a new furnace, probably without the wire mesh, but definitely with the fireclay refractory walls. I'd like to move into copper and someday iron, but for now aluminum affords an ease of design and fuel choice, as charcoal is easy to use. Someday I'd like to construct both a waste oil burner and blower once I get my workshop up and running.
@enderland: Thanks! What was originally going to be a small diversion from my chemistry studies, has actually turned into quite an interesting hobby. Once you get the bug, all you can think about is designing home foundries and melting things.
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The best imperial stout I've had was Old Rasputin, that was awesome, but Stone is pretty close. As for Guinness, personally, I think it's over-rated. Some people swear by it, drink it every day. Don't get me wrong, it's a good drink and I've enjoyed plenty, often the best you can get in some limited selection bars, but I've found plenty better since I started trying micro-brews and other foreign beers. Here in the US it also has less abv, surprisingly, than our domestics. Great body, though.
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Beer Wine
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Pretty much the gist is creating all new buildings, and retrofitting old ones, so that they capture the wind, solar, and waste recycling energies and store them in hydrogen batteries, to not only make the buildings self-sufficient, but to link them to a continental smart electrical grid that sells the excess electricity under conditions you set.
The rest of it is pretty interesting too, about oil reserves, and effects of global warming on the atmosphere, and how changes in technology affects the mind's quality of consciousness.
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I've seen such trolling ruin lives of a few people I know. It's really sad.
Being offended by something is a choice. You might not like what some one says, especially if it is slanderous, but it's ultimately up to you if it causes emotional pain.
Mahatma Gandhi: They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.
When it's obviously used for bullying, it's just abusing rights.What is the deciding factor between bullying or not? I am bombarded at all times by intrusive, insulting, messages from advertisers on every medium and every billboard outside trying to manipulate my opinions and influence my buying habits. Is that bullying?
This doesn't apply in this day and age. Heck, Google alone stalks the hell out of your very private personal information and their privacy policy is basically "if you don't like it, don't use it".I remember 15 years back as a kid, when we were told to never use personal details in emails ever for safety reasons. These days, you'd be severely crippling your career and social options if you were to keep personal details out of email. Gmail itself reads a lot of company emails. I'd like to download an app that tells me when the next movie at the local cinema is showing, but in exchange, I'd have to give them my location and phone conversation logs.Probably within 5 years, all this info will become increasingly public, and it's already way too fricking easy to stalk people. I mean, these days, I've been able to find very personal info about people who are interviewing on the radio or random 'anonymous' chatters on IRC, just with a quick 10 min search. Even if it's not posted by the person directly, it's through their family members or things like voting/tax databases online. I've pinned down the house numbers and family members of people in CN just by knowing their first name, minor job details, city, and/or mutual friends/interests.Not so much a matter of don't give people information to abuse, but adopting to the fact that information to abuse will be freely available.
Nothing on the internet has ever been private nor will it ever be. Almost every bit of data transferred is intercepted by ECHELON and through the various sigint organs as provided by the UKUSA Agreement.
That said, the internet is not a right. Like the automobile, it is a very useful tool, and being able to operate one or the other gives a great advantage in working and organizing life. But it is not a right. Don't want the consequences of posting your face or contact details? Don't use it.
You may not know this but back in the day, and in some places even now, if you want to conduct certain commercial or licensing activities, you had to take a page out in the local paper to print your intention and reveal your name and address.
If people want to use these tools, they should be grown up enough to handle the flak that comes with it. I cannot think of a single thing that other people could try to do, short of credit card fraud, that couldn't be easily rectified by an explanation.
But here's my main point, and I'm not saying that what those little !@#$% did was cool or OK, it was obviously childish and aimed at hurting the lady. But my point is this. If people can't toughen up in regards to this "internet bullying" and other horse!@#$, they will start yammering about making laws to "protect" themselves from these... words. And when that happens, it affects everybody. Already many organizations are trying to, are implementing, or already have implemented anti-anonymous platforms.
Is that what you want? Because that is the obvious end result behind this sort of "outrage" perpetuated the media systems. The wild west of the internet is under pressure to be ever tamed, commercialized, and regulated.
I, personally, prefer my internet anonymous. Sure it comes with some baggage like having to deal with other anonymous trolls, but I can handle that in return for partial privacy.
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The internet has thrust us into new realms of law theory and application.
But I think in the majority of cases, people need less laws and more toughening up. Nobody likes being harassed or insulted, but the right to free speech is safeguarded by being tough enough to handle other people's words. It's just words, usually of little value, not a lynching mob.
In most electronic mediums, it's a simple matter to ignore other people who let their lack of empathy and childishness run them.
If I say something that pisses some one off, but they insist on mouth frothing antics because they can't construct a reasonable counter argument, then they can $%&@ off, it's not my problem.
Likewise, if I say something that some people feel the need to ridicule or mock, again, not really my problem. I won't be embarrassed for stating how I feel about something.
And neither should anyone else.
As for having your name and address displayed, like the lady in the article, it's nothing more than a pathetic attempt at intimidation. And, if you don't want any information used against you, don't be posting pictures of your kid and !@#$ on public profiles.
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You just blew my mind
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Hey that's an awesome post, S.O.M, thanks for the advice and biology lesson. I appreciate it. Good luck with your training!
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Ok,
Day 1. (4/27)
I have completed the following:
all weights are for each arm. sure wish I had a barbell and bench.
30 lbs curls, 8 reps, 2 sets
Squats with 10 lbs in each hand, 10 reps, 2 sets
Bicycle Crunches, 10 reps (1-2-1-2 ect), 2 sets
Pushups, 10 reps 2 sets
5 sec. supermans, 10 reps, 1 set
Kickbacks 10 reps, 1 set
Sit-ups, 10 reps, 1 set
Shoulder shrugs w/ 10 lbs in each hand, 10 reps at 5 sec. holds, 10 fast
Chest fly's, 10 lbs each hand, 10 reps, 1 set
Followed by a brisk jog to the local diner to eat. .7 miles.
notes: I really wanted to round out 3 sets for all exercises, but, for once, remembered how I always go overboard and am never ready for the next exercise date due to stiffness/soreness. This time I took it easy, and I'll see what the damage is tomorrow.
might jog in my off days, but I'm concerned about my calorie intake.
will probably start doing this in the morning cause I don't want to do jack !@#$ after I get off work.
Whoo, 1 down. 14 more to go.
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Ha ha, HalfEmpty, you must be one of the most chill dudes around.
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Hey, thanks guys, you're making want to put on "eye of the tiger" right now.
Prodigal Moon, that's some great advice and an excellent book suggestion, thank you.
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The real question is can YOU survive another 5 years of CN?
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That was f'ing hilarious.
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I'd sign up for that.
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No, those people get real lives. This is the place for people who can't get those degrees.
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I want to have your babies.
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In an OOC sense, raiding fits quite well with my RL survival-of-the-fittest philosophy. IC, though, I find it more entertaining to be anti-raiding and more in line of how a real politico would see the world. War should be a carefully controlled instrument, not a willy nilly slasher against others simply because they are un-protected. It also ensures that I'll always have an adversarial philosophical position to fall back on if I need it.
To take it to a higher level, I see honey-potting, or taking out raiders akin to the predator taking out commandos. The assassinator of assassins is a higher caliber of creature.
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I slept all the next day. Ah, the life of debauchery.
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Drinking rules/procedure:
1. Open bottle.
2. Drink.
3. Don't stop until all $%&@ed up or achieving momentary respite from crushing existential anxiety and despair.
4. Keep going (don't stop, you !@#$%).
5. Blast music and/or exit dwelling.
6. Find bar/some porch/get on IRC/CN forums.
7. Engage in blurry pseudo-philosophical conversation/conduct rogue diplomacy/insult random people.
8. Fight.
9. ???
10. Profit
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Ugh, so bland.