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Fumbduck | politics | t5_2cneq | c21q3v9 | The problem with this argument is that it is illogical. We have a rational legal system, though not a perfect one. To argue that we should not break down crimes more specifically in order to more accurately and fairly determine punishment, because that in itself leads to greater levels of inaccuracy/inconsistency, is illogical.
While you are right in thinking that if we removed judicial discretion completely we would end up with one-size-fits-all punishments, you are wrong in thinking that systemic rationalism in the direction of more specificism, as Leshiy was alluding to, does the same thing. For couldn't the entirety of our differentiable legal system be less so? No murder 1, 2, manslaughter voluntary or involuntary, just "killer" with one sentence or broad range for judicial discretion (creepy and scary). Couldn't all theft be left as theft with one single punishment for all of them?
Since We, the People, are responsible for our laws in this Republic, systemic logic and fairness is our responsibility. The judge at the helm is responsible for the last bit of rationalism. The two work together; system first, judge second. This is why before a trial there is a hearing to determine if the case fits the crime and a trial should proceed. Cutting down on irrational judicial discretion is accomplished with greater systemic rationalism, or, the tighter we bound our judges the less effect their errors can have.
Or to put it another way, while you are right in believing that we could never perfectly nail ever single nuance of every single potential crime, you don't honestly think that the opposite (to not try at all) actually accomplishes the goal of a fairer system? You confused the plausibility of perfection with the effect of the attempt, generally. This resulted in an illogical statement akin to, "since the system WILL NOT be perfect, therefore, it WILL NOT be fair." When the more logical argument would have been, "since the system WILL NOT be perfect, therefore, it WILL NOT be PERFECTLY fair." Which implies that the effort towards perfect rationalism isn't inversely related to fairness in law, somehow, but aligned and only as fair as we deem it necessary to make it.
There is, however, an inverse relationship here, that is, judicial discretion vs. systemic specificism/rationalism. | Therefore, the more specific the system is, the less discretion judges have. |
Lyme | politics | t5_2cneq | c234t69 | Yeah, you're right. My dog totally didn't need the $3000 worth of vet visits and surgery to make sure that his broken leg got properly fixed so he could walk again.
And when I had 3 tires blow out, I didn't need to spend the $450 to get it fixed so I can go to work.
And I don't need to pay for all those medications that keep me alive every month.
Clearly, my debt is all just extraneous and frivolous. | LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE IN DEBT BECAUSE THE COST OF NECESSARY THINGS ARE SO HIGH THAT THEY CAN'T AFFORD IT, NOT DUE TO BUYING SHIT THEY COULDN'T AFFORD. |
HonorAmongSteves | politics | t5_2cneq | c2354zm | I would just like to point out that statistics like this can always be manipulated to support whatever side you want to.
For example, a lot of the productivity improvement since 1980 has been a result of the incredibly increase in technology that's happened since then. Imagine what computers could do in 1980 vs what they do today. They've made it possible for workers to do less and be more productive. They've made it possible for less workers to be more productive. Etc. You have to figure this as a downward force on wages because it's a substitute for labor that's effective. Instead of a factory full of workers on assembly lines, you have two workers and a foreman overseeing an assembly line of computer controlled robots. | I implore you to use critical thinking when evaluating these claims. |
gamedude999 | politics | t5_2cneq | c2355rk | Everyone who things like this isn't doing a very thorough analysis of the situation.
It's not corporate overlords, it's competition. Without these productivity increases the rest of the world would destroy us. Our wages are so high that just to keep them that high we have to be way more productive than the average chinese dude who gets paid so much less.
Unfortunately this is a fact of life. You could cut off free trade but that just makes things even worse. The real fix (and the fix to stabilizing our population as well) is to bring living standards up to our standards all over the world. How do we do this? Increase productivity. | just because you increase productivity doesn't mean wages go up. The increases can be eaten in plenty of other ways including lower prices. |
FelixP | politics | t5_2cneq | c2358gj | You're missing the point - the two issues are inherently related. Thanks to ever-improving global communication and transportation networks, first-world citizens no longer enjoy a monopoly on first world labor. There is no "going back." We're going to need to either learn to compete, learn to live with less (relatively), or some combination thereof.
Two observations, as an addendum:
1) If an American/Western European is going to demand 10x the wages of a worker in China/Vietnam/Tanzania, they had better be able to deliver 10x the value. Obviously, this is pretty challenging.
2) The globalization of labor has been an enormous net-positive for the world population. Literally hundreds of millions, possibly billions of people, now have a shot at something approaching a decent standard of living. | First-world citizens need to get over themselves |
devedander | politics | t5_2cneq | c235p3k | the point your missing is that you assume total labor value/pay is static and distribution is whats on question...
the real issue is that wealth is being collected and taken out of the available pool by certain players... THATS the problem...
so the problem isn't that payscales are shifting to other countries (yes thats happening) but more that we in the us are being valued less FASTER than others are being valued more... its not a fair sifting of pay, therers money being taken out of the game to a large extent.
lets say the world was 3people. 1us 1brit and 1chinese. the us gets $10/hr, the brit gets $8 per hour and the chinese $2.
your theory is that the us guy is getting.dropped to $7 the brit to $6 and the chinese guy gets that $5 bringing him up to $7.
that would be fair but a birter pill.
but.whats really happening is that the us guy is.getting dropped to $6, the brit to $6 and the chinese guy is getting bumped to $3. see money is.disapearing feom that game and THATS thw problem... all this while MORE work is being done by the 3... imagine through all this that they all get 50% of their vacation taken away and their benefits taken away.
now do you see the problem? its not that fair value is shifting money from me to someone else its that someone is stwaling money from the pot so really evwrypne ia getting paid less for more work. | its not that the other guys are making their fare share now, its that we are all being robbed. just i happen to have more to lose.
sorry for spelling, cell phone. |
h12321 | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c23p6y9 | Not quite true. You are correct when you talk about treatments yes, as they move quickly. Same with hypothesised pathophysiology of diseases. However, in a simple prevalence/harm Comparison it definitely isn't. The damage that a drug does isn't going to change immensely over this period of time, except where it is due to a cultural practice, which has changed or a drug interaction where the drug is no longer available.
Another unrelated example is anatomy, or even gene sequencing. In 9 years nothing will have changed. In 900 years not a lot will have changed even. Yet that is still medical research! | true for drugs and stuff, not for this example. |
Bwob | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c24cjb4 | So um, that sounds great, but speaking as a software engineer, that's not actually how bugs (or in particular fixing bugs) works. If they found a bug, particularly a critical bug, then it's not like they can just "release everything else while they fix it." Assuming that they even know where the bug is, making the code-change to "leave that part out" could easily introduce even more bugs. | probably silly to try to second guess their decisions when they have a lot more experience with their codebase, and access to all the details. |
whereistehnarwhal | Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c26t7n6 | This really should be reported to the card issuer/acquiring bank. You could also notify Visa/Mastercard/Whomever is the final authority for your card.
While there is a lot of debate around the regulation, card processors are required to meet a specifically defined level of compliance in order to accept and process credit card payments. A breach of any sort is built-in proof that they are not meeting compliance requirements. | report this to your card issuer and ask about investigation options. |
P00P3RB0WL | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c281bg8 | Call me crazy but i look at the figures of how dangerous alcohol is (being in rehab i have known this for a long time, its one of the only things that have potentially fatal withdrawal symptoms.) i start to think about bartenders. We pay people to administer us this drug, is it insanely radical to think about the job opportunities involved in legalizing and regulating other drugs? Ugh, sometimes i don't know if American legislation regarding this subject will ever be logical. It's filled with so much misinformation fueled by fear based avoidance programs. The sad conclusion i have to come to is that its far more beneficial to keep this war on human rights going for the people that benefit from it. Right now the [prison construction industry]( is one of the most lucrative and crooked forms of business you can get into. Not to mention all the legal fees you pay when going through the legal system, and who can overlook the figures of the overwhelming racial, and socioeconomic favor the prison system has? The fact is the drug war and prohibition is a war on human rights, minorities, the working class, and impoverished people of the world with its effects reaching countries all over. I'm rambling, just excited to see another advocate out there... | Word. |
BowlingisnotNam | relationship_advice | t5_2r0cn | c299wtu | Either you are terrible at communicating your thoughts/feelings into a reddit post, or you're kind of immature. Sorry.
Take a step back and realize you aren't running for president, so you don't have to talk politics. Also, I've met these old fashioned dads, and they usually are doing their best, the way they know how. You don't have to agree with their methods. Relax, find comfort when you find common ground, instead of anxiety where you obsess over your differences. If that means you have to find common ground first, then do it. If the conversation turns toward something that makes you anxious, find a subtle way to change/back out from the subject. Its not hard, unless they make it, which is where a good sense of humor will almost always save you.
P.S. I know a dumb, pretty, self-absorbed, ignorant bimbo too. She's my sister. If you learn to be easy-going, then you can put the silly things that once bothered you into perspective, and realize it doesn't affect your ability to have an enjoyable, meaningful time. | Find a way to stop being so uptight about shit that doesn't matter in forming a relationship. |
rockstarfruitpunch | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c29cpvd | MvC3 has a feature that allows you to cancel your on-screen character's super with another person's offscreen. In this case, Weskers super was activated, and then cancelled into Deadpool's Level 3 Super.
The player activated Deadpool's Level 3 super instead of a normal super, because there is a glitch in MvC that allows certain characters Level 3's, like Akuma's raging demon, to become invincible to continuous stream projectiles (like Ryu's Super Hadoken) when it is cancelled into (doesn't have to be cancelled into, but should be cancelled out of by DHC or Xfactor).
The cancelling process is known as Delayed Hyper Combo (DHC) and is not a glitch - this is an active feature of the game that allows you to combo supers within supers, or safely switch characters while dealing damage. | Swapping out Wesker for Deadpool during super is not a glitch. Deadpool walking through Iron Man's super is a glitch
Edit:
Here's some C. Viper footage of 'Beam Nullification': |
TheNerdbiscuit | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c29ebtd | Karma is fun and very effective, no matter what some people say. You have to be very good with her and good at last-hitting in general. If you can do that, she's insane and pumps out a lot of AOE damage as well as being fairly supporty. Just don't play her as a full-on support; her heal is pretty crappy on everyone except tanks so you should build more like a tanky AP carry.
I max the shield first. It makes it impossible for the opponents to do any damage at all if you use it right and it hurts pretty bad at the same time when mantra'd. I max the Q second and take one rank in bond at level four for those pinch slowdown opportunities and also for farming (it does a surprising amount of damage when you drag it through minions).
As far as items go, Rod of Ages is probably the best to rush and the best item overall for Karma. Otherwise, Kage's Lucky Pick or a Philo Stone are good to grab quick. Your main source of income is farming/assisting so the extra gold can help a lot. Depending on the situation, I either go Ionian Boots or Sorceror's Shoes. If I don't get Ionian Boots, I try to grab a Fiendish Codex later and build it into Deathfire Grasp. It's a fun late-game item for Karma as well. And of course, Rabadabadabadabadabadon's. Things like Frozen Heart or Aegis are fantastic after you've got decent AP. It makes you even harder to kill than you already are.
Runes: magic pen. marks, mana regen per level seals, AP/level glyphs, and flat AP quints. | Bursty AP. Almost never mantra the Q. Skill order: E > Q > W. |
TryMyBanana | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c29fg1b | I don't like to build AP on Karma. I start with a double faerie charm + pots build or one faerie charm with an enemt jungle, and rush Philo. The reason is, I don't like to take farm from my lane partner, and a philo, occasional creep, and assist gold is plenty for me. Afterwards, I gauge how well we're doing. If my lane has scored a few early kills, I'll pick up my ionian boots of lucidity. If it's passive or we're losing, I get a HoG and tier 1 boots. Again, evaluate the gameplay as you b to buy items. Fed AD carries destroying you? Rush Thornmail or Frozen Heart. And FoN or BV for AP. I love tanky Karma because my shields are plenty strong without AP, and it allows for me to easily heal and disrupt fights by standing in the center. I also can meatshield much much better and let my dps run away if need be. By being in the center, I can help dps with my Q if we're winning, W an escaping enemy or a chasing teammate, etc. Late game, I like to upgrade my philo to either a eleisa's miracle if they're cc heavy or a shurelya's if not. Another item I love is QSS, as Karma has difficulties escaping with CC on her. Don't forget wards are your friends! | buy wards. I like tanky karma. |
ChiefLikesCake | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2afvfm | Zilean was on skype with me and doing exactly what he should have been doing, though he was doing it a bit early. When I asked him why he did it so early it was because of my dash; he had no idea if I'd be in range when I needed it.
Intelligent players will see a Zilean ult know they have to make a decision: Focus this target down and have them come back with more health than they had, or let them pound on you for 7 seconds. Either way, a Zilean ult on a character that gets focused (like Akali) gives them a lot more freedom to deal damage in situations where they normally wouldn't. Akali's role in a team fight is to assassinate the carry and low HP targets. In order to fufill that role she does massive burst damage, but to counter that she's squishy as all fuck. A Zilean ult means she has 7 seconds to burst down ANYONE, which is long enough to turn any team fight in her favor. | a Zilean ult can be used both to save someone about to die or to remove focus from a target who the enemy team REALLY wants to focus. |
modern_zenith | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2aoex5 | I know that people on Reddit like to insult EA's customer service, but they are not that bad.. sometimes...
One time, I forgot my Origins password and requested a new one. I waited a day and still hadn't gotten the reset email, so I contacted EA support.
The first guy was OK and said that he was going to transfer me to a higher associate. I waited TWO HOURS(I counted) to talk to the "higher" associate. (I was using their chat system btw.)
Anyways, the new agent was very helpful and said that since I had waited so long, I would be entitled to ANY game from the EA Origins store. I asked for Crysis 2 (since it was the most expensive game at that time :P) and he gave me a code for it :D | EA made me wait 2 hours and gave me Crysis 2 for free due to my patience. |
fraggr | politics | t5_2cneq | c2b1p9r | You don't become a "penny stock" by losing value, much less only $1 in value. When people refer to "penny stocks" they're usually talking about pink sheets. BofA isn't leaving the NYSE and as such is not (and never will be) considered a penny stock. | philosoraptor45 is quite literally retarded. |
BigBanker | politics | t5_2cneq | c2b1x4s | As an FYI to those who doesn't understand what this means, it means nothing. There are pending lawsuits, yes, but Bank of America has been dealing with law suits regarding the mortgage crisis since it happened. A drop in stock price has absolutely no impact on the actual business, however it will have an impact on the executives at the bank. These folks are the ones who are appointed by the stock holders and ultimately will lose their jobs if they are no longer seen as effective.
Straight from the 10-Q:
> Net income (loss) was $(8.8) billion and $(6.8) billion for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 compared to $3.1 billion and $6.3 billion for the same periods in 2010. The principal contributors to the net loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 were the following: $14.0 billion of representations and warranties provision in the second quarter largely related to the BNY Mellon Settlement as well as other mortgage-related costs, including a $2.6 billion non-cash, non-tax deductible goodwill impairment charge, higher mortgage-related litigation expense and increased mortgage assessments and waivers costs.
Basically, as Bank of America settles its lawsuits, net income will continue to be negative. I don't have a huge amount of time to find the exact figure, but if you adjust the losses of 2Q2011 by the settlements, net income is positive. This isn't saying the bank is doing great, these lawsuits have a definite impact on the financial strength of the company, but it shows the underlying health of the company outside of the mortgage issues.
Another quick glance at the 10-Q (page 12) will show the non-interest income coming into the bank. Total non-interest income was $1.990Bn, however if you adjust for the $13.196Bn in mortgage losses you see non-interest income of $15.186Bn. This primarily comes from trading account profits, investment/brokerage services, services charges, and card income. Again, the institution itself is healthy from a non-mortgage standpoint and is making a lot of money.
Finally, a look at the balance sheet. Bank of America has total assets at June 30th, 2011 of roughly $2.3 trillion dollars. Digging deeper, Tier 1 capital is $153.1Bn with a minimum required of $55.7Bn. That is a great deal of breathing room if losses continue for the next few years. Finally, digging even deeper, nonperforming loans, leases and foreclosed properties are sitting at $30.1Bn, which is a lot, but a decrease from the $35.6Bn 6 months prior. | Bank of America is not in trouble of collapsing. This is simply the market going crazy because of the S&P announcement. |
ranger4290 | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2c05dd | Free to play, try it out sometime. It's a game style that spawned off DoTA, a custom game from Warcraft III, basically you have your hero (5v5 or 3v3) and you're trying to kill the enemy's nexus/base before they kill yours. Add in lots of PvP, neutral monsters that give buffs, small creeps in lanes on each sides, and towers that defend the lanes and that's the game. | TRY IT! |
needuhLee | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2c0xcm | There are two modes: 5v5 and 3v3; 5v5 being the dominant one (3v3 wasn't there originally and 5v5 is, in general favored).
There are three lanes that spawn minions and a jungle in between with neutral monsters.
You control a champion that has 4 spells, one of which is an ultimate that cannot be used until level 6, and a passive. Each champion (there are 81) has 4 unique spells and passives; however, despite which champion you are playing, you get 2 spells that you choose before and you can pick despite which champion you play. Ghost allows you to run fast for an amount of time, Ignite deals true damage based on your level and cuts down healing effects by 50%, Exhaust makes the target move slower and do significantly less damage, etc.
The goal of the game, ultimately, is to destroy the enemy nexus. How this is achieved is killing 1 or more inhibitors in each lane (one per lane guarded by 3 turrets, only one required to win), which allows for the turrets guarding the Nexus to be attacked and then allows for the Nexus to be destroyed.
There are a lot of other elements to the game. There are buffs (red buff makes your auto attack deal "true damage" (ignores armor and MR, does the damage that it says), more damage per your level, and slows, blue buff gives you mana and energy regeneration and cool down reduction) that are obtained from killing the neutral monster that holds it, global objectives (killing Dragon gives each person on your team Gold, killing Baron gives each person on your team more Gold, experience, and a buff), and more.
Each champion also has it's own unique play style and role. For example, Annie is a burst caster meaning that she can do a lot of damage in a short amount of time but has to wait for cool downs before doing any more damage. And, since her damage is mostly from spells, she itemizes Ability Power to hit higher. Amumu is a tank who has great initiation. Ashe is an AD (attack damage) carry whose damage comes mostly from her auto attack, therefore buying AD makes her hit higher, but also benefits from crit chance, life steal, and attack speed.
In general, the game has many elements and in order to be good at the game you have to understand these elements and use the knowledge to your advantage. It's also tons of fun to play and I would definitely recommend it to anybody and everybody. It's kind of like Nexus Wars, in a way. | A+++ would play agian |
TXTiki | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2c172a | Another thing to note blueboybob, is that League of Legends is going to be coming out with one of their biggest updates since the game was released as a closed beta, its a whole new game mode with a whole different type of strategy involved.
I had seen previously you asked about the length of games, and even though the traditional map Summoner's Rift (5v5) can take anywhere from 20 minutes (surrender) to 80 minutes (the longest I've ever played) this new game mode averages around 20 minutes of explosively action packed gameplay. This new mode is called Dominion, and I'll post some helpful links in a second. Basically, if you are familiar with Call of Duty games where you play Domination, you capture 5 point on the map with your champion, and the longer you hold these points for, and the more you control, the faster your enemy teams points fall. When your enemy team's points hit 0, you win. This game mode is something revolutionary to the MOBA genre, and you'll basically be around as it sprouts.
Things to note about Dominion:
Brand New Map
Brand New Game Mode
New Items
Instead of starting at level 1 in game, you start at level 3 (max level is 18)
New buffs (special upgrades in game such as speed boost or more damage) | Dominion is part of LoL now, and it should definitely be mentioned. Might be more your game type, might not, but who cares, you get the best of both worlds if you want!
LINK 1: Newly released gameplay:
LINK 2: The release trailer and website: |
Pandoraa | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2cxo1r | You know what sucks is that the majority of times I play with redditors I feel so pressured to play perfectly. I know that's my own problem, but I remember 2 particular games where in the first game, one of the redditors said in mumble "Guys, how does it feel to have a girl have a better k/d ratio than us" (I'm a girl) and at first I thought it was just a joke but he said something similar later on and I think he really meant it.
I'm usually not sensitive about the whole "haha gamer girls lololol" but I don't want to have to worry about that when I'm just trying to play with fellow redditors.
In the 2nd game, I was having a lot of trouble getting turretdove like crazy up top and although I kept asking if I could get some help, they just said "you better step your game up", or "I blame this loss on you".
Sorry, had to let that out.
Feels bad man. | don't be an ass |
MsConstrued | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2dehky | I hope you've read The Ethical Slut before embarking on your open relationship journey.
As someone who operates solely in ethical non-monogamy I can tell you from experience it's harder (read: near impossible) to open a closed relationship than close an open one. There is NO room for jealousy whatsoever and you need to recognize being jealous as you are and being 150% confident in your relationship is redundant.
If you're open, you need to trust her. If she wants to fuck a dirty homeless trucker but you find her choice tasteless and disgusting - too bad. Unless your physical safety is in jeopardy with her safe sex practices or something leave the girl alone to make her own choices and mistakes, as they may be. Being open is giving her room to breathe and not micromanaging her other partners/relationships.
If it bothers you that much, this is not for you. You can try talking to her about how you feel and maybe changing the rules to exclude people she knows and agree on sex only with new people/people out of town/people at swingers clubs only but if you can't handle your own feelings and emotions, it's going to be a downward spiral of jealousy and resentment. | Read the Ethical Slut. Immediately. |
stlthrowaway | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2dep7l | Thank you. I have not read the Ethical Slut. We are both listeners of the Savage Love Podcast, and we talked (and continue to talk) extensively about our arrangement. I feel our communication on the matter is very positive.
I am not a jealous person with regards to physical interaction. If my wife picked up a random guy at a bar and fucked his brains out (presuming she was safe about it), I would not have any jealous emotions (actually, it would be a big turn on for me). I think the issue here is that it seems to be a more intimate connection. It seems to me like she's going after him as a single girl trying to get a boyfriend. It's her emotional investment that is bothering me. I'd much rather her have an occasional two-week long fling with a guy (or random one night stand) than this, which is a four-month long saga of hookups, texting, her fretting over his lack of communication, her wondering if she should text him, etc.
I'm not ignoring the possibility that I am being unfair here. That's why I asked the question. I will be open to criticism in this regard, but I really believe that I am not a jealous person.
** | I get turned on by the idea of her fucking other guys, but her relationship with this one guy is giving me serious anxiety, and I'm looking to the experts of Sexxit to share if they think my feelings are valid or not. |
Walrus-Boy | science | t5_mouw | c2dm49k | Blacks make up 13% of the US population.
Irrelevant data: We would need to know the percentage of scientists who are black. [This study] ( says that 3% of scientists are black. | This is sensationalist bullshit. |
redditallreddy | science | t5_mouw | c2dmfo5 | The National Institutes of Health said that out of every 100 funding applications it considered, 30 were granted to white applicants. This compared with 20 to black applicants.
They misquote the original study in the opening sentences, and I feel the need to correct it. They meant, "Out of every 100 applications by white applicants, 30 were granted. But only 20 were granted for every 100 applications by black applicants."
The correction is significant, because if the low percentage of blacks in science (which is odd and speaks to many possible causes) still allowed 20% of applications to be accepted, that would be a dramatically increased amount, as opposed to the lowered amount that was intended. They post a link to the [original study, but I post it here, too](
BTW Asians did disproportionately poorly, too, and whites did best, but not by a very big difference. | BBC goofed the the original lines; they should be percentage of applicants of race, not based on the whole of applicants |
PlunkaDyik | science | t5_mouw | c2eddb1 | Wow, a goddamn fucking wop who thinks he's smarter then everyone - how innovative!
Affirmative action is used to supplement the fucking failure that is inntegration - its to try to get people to hire blacks and to subscribe embedded discrimination.
Why does this discrimination happen? IS IT CAUSE US BLACKS ARE TEH INFERIOR? WE CANT DO NO GOOD JOBS?
No, it's because of lower economic stance. Culture and economics are intertwined. WHY? IS IT CAUSE US BLACKS IS TEH INFERIOR NOW?
No, it's because whites pushed assimilationism - in spite of culture and economics. If one group of people is seen as poor, it is seen - unanimously and perpetually - as the underclass. Because of this perpetual underclass-ship, blacks aren't seen as fit for /any/ job. 30% of us are fucking unemployed for fucks sake! The aim for assimilationism is for everyone to see people in a "colorblind" way. Colorblindness is fucking bullshit.
That's why Jews and Hispanics are doing better, economically - because they decided to economically segregate. But now, economic segregation (black businesspeople hiring predominantly blacks and getting blacks to only buy black shit - hold on, just wait for your wop brain to process this), is impossible - because we're too poor to even start a business. Which is because whites don't want to hire us.
Also, Occam's razor, writing a big, long, wop-infested | doesn't make you right. |
GeneralWarts | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2eck2m | For me the best memories and thoughts of college are the later years when you found more time to party, got brave enough to skip some classes to hang out with friends and enjoy a nice round of disc golf in the sun.
When I talk to people who are graduating they almost always can't wait to be done.. The reason being classes, projects and homework. I had almost forgot about the stress related to these and one great thing about getting into the work force is that you can usually leave your work where it belongs and the nights and weekends are yours. | You enjoy college for the lack of fiscal responsibilities, being with friends, etc. You hate college because of looming deadlines, homework, and tests. |
mastermoo420 | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2ednmt | Sad thing is people don't realize how good being in school can be. I'm only 17 and still in high school, but the concept of school is so much more free of stress than being an adult is.
Why? In school, you know what to do. You go, "learn" (aka regurgitate information the teachers spit at you; at least in high school), do homework, prepare to go to college or graduate school or where ever you're going next. Once you're out, though, there's no set schedule or plan. It sounds free, but if you're not making any income and have no financial support, it's going to suck. | Being in school means you know your future or at least a near future. There should be comfort taken in that. |
johnny_2x4 | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2fe30r | I play mostly solo top offtank and the occasional jungle udyr, so can anyone enlighten me a bit on what the required runes are for this build? I know I can jungle with udyr and WW without very many runes, but ive tried jungling with noc and I just kinda die..... and I DO know how to position his Q to land all the creeps. And what about in lane? | I love Noc but what runes do i NEED from the ones in the guide to jungle with him? Is he good as a laner in solo ranked too? |
I_hate_bananas | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2f3dc1 | I put my hands up and I apologize for not crediting my source
Im my defense, I made this post in a rush before leaving this morning & this was something I posted in /r/DIY (where I did credit) for advice on the whole business of attaching it to a wall.
This is the original post I saved to text:
After being inspired by the [excellent post]( earier this year showing completed Portal mirrors, I decided to make some for a good friend's wedding gift.
I'm intending to use the same strategy of gluing a block of wood to the back as a spacer, then either a hook or a hole in the back to grip onto a nail or something similar on a wall.
The thing is - they are very heavy and I want to keep this a surprise and also I'm not sure what the walls will be like at my friend's new house. Could I hope that their wall will hold a sturdy nail or can anyone think of a better way to go about it?
Cheers!
I have been assembling the parts just temporarily using bluetac and tight ties - here's couple of videos of the mirrors in action!
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[ | How would you attach these mirrors + cables to a wall you've not seen before?
Looking back now I shouldn't have deleted it(!) but then I wanted to avoid complaints about reposting, how ironic!
So just to be crystal clear -
I took the idea from [this post]( who got their inspiration from [here](
I'm sorry again to those who were quite rightly pissed off when they didnt see any credit to something they had seen before.
Any notion that this was 'stolen' for karma, I'm sorry but this is not something that I care for - I'm here purely for the advice. Thanks then especially to thegoodthebadandme |
SARGEANTFREEDOM | politics | t5_2cneq | c2gs1q9 | I can't wait to read through 250,000 diplomatic cables! | coming soon! |
SaltyBabe | politics | t5_2cneq | c2h6fbo | Vitamin C hasn't actually been proven to help someones immune system. Hydrogen peroxide will also kill healthy tissue, causing inflammation of mucus membranes and longer healing times. Cleaning an infected tooth on the surface will also not do anything for an infection inside it, in the jaw bone and/or skull. I'm glad you're no doctor, this man would have died just the same following your regimen as if he had sat around eating junk food popping pain pills.
Antibiotics work on bacterial infections. Antibiotics are chemicals that kill the bacteria cells but do not affect the cells that make up your body. For example, many antibiotics interrupt the machinery inside bacterial cells that builds the cell wall. Human cells do not contain this machinery, so they are unaffected. Different antibiotics work on different parts of bacterial machinery, so each one is more or less effective on specific types of bacteria. | There is a reason medicine isn't based on "common sense" and "pretty basic stuff"... don't take medical advice from someone who hasn't been to med school. |
istielthia | politics | t5_2cneq | c2h8f4m | Try your local dental school, if you have one close by. I had a tooth infection caused by a badly done filling (from when I had insurance) and when the infection reached the root, the pain was so intense I thought I was going to pass out. I was able to get it pulled the next day for $60. In my experience, dental schools are first come, first serve, and you usually have to get there very early in the morning (6 or 7am.) You'll be worked on my supervised students, and they will of course try to talk you in to more extensive treatment, but you can get the basics/necessities done fairly inexpensively. | Get your tooth taken care of ASAP. |
BitterOldBastard | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c2ifzcv | He seems like a decent guy and a good friend who is trying to do what he thinks best.
As a decent man with various non straight female friends I have been in that situation before,
but what I thought is not important, what he thinks is.
So you need to ask him. But do it gently we men fear such talks :)
My first guess is he likes and respects you so much he is not interested in a fling.
Or he, like myself, is not into NSA sex. Does he have flings with other women?
He may be concerned it won't work out, for whatever reason lesbian or not, and thus doesn't want to start.
Seems doubtful he is homophobic, given he already approves of you.
My only real advice is not to get drunk and make a pass, he already made it clear he is not interested in that type of arrangement...
If you two get along that well it is worth effort to make a serious relationship.
Go for it and good luck! Tomboys are great girlfriends :) | He really likes you, ask him, don't make drunken pass |
yakri | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2ikqij | Dude, HAVE FUN WITH THIS.
Plus, with "practice" you'll get used to it, and not wriggle around so much.
It's the same with me, I mean, if I'm on the recieving end of manual sex or something, if she touches pretty much anything other than my penis I'm about ready to thrash around giggling.
But, with a lot of effort, you can stay still, and if you just don't stress out about it, and your SO makes things easy on you, you can have FUN with your ticklishness you know. | Roll with it. |
a_nice_hat | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c2inykh | Stop being a fucking doormat and either "man up" and put an end to this bullshit situation or just end it out right.
If she has no problem disrespecting you by fooling around with her "friend" whilst you're going for a piss on a night out together, what's to say she isn't cheating on you with her or others whilst you're away at work, etc? | Stop being a pussyhole and rectify yo' shit son. |
Soslashren | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2jmi5b | When I first saw Talon's Crimson Elite skin, I was like : "What the fuck is this space opera power ranger shit?!", and I also had that sort of reaction at Riven's version. But then I thought about it a little, and if they can keep the concept going for the other characters who are no doubt going to have this type of skin, it is going to be quite hilarious to have that sort of uniformed power ranger team. It is sort of a unique 90'ish style.
They should just be careful to not drop the ball on the aesthetic like they did with Commando Lux, who doesn't really seem to fit in with the other Commandos. Maybe she is like special forces or some shit or some special type of officer or whatever, but I think I would have preferred a look that was more unified with the other commandos like this one made by ChiZ: | A full group of Crimson Elite is going to be rather fun to see. |
Lt_McDinosaur | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2jtrln | This right here is why i stopped jungling. almost without fail, I will have a lane who bitches that they never get ganks even though they have the enemy hugging their own tower because they pushed it so hard. Then they get ganked because they dont have a river ward. So i put my wriggles ward down there for them instead of warding objectives or jungle. Or the best is when im getting blue or red and gank the lane closest to the buff and the lane furthest away is like wtf man why you gank lane closest to you? | Now i only play mid or solo top so im far away from my teammates |
Cho_Gath | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2k1orv | What I want to make clear is that HALF the people you play with are better than you are and HALF the people you play with are worse. You could be gaining rank quickly and then it's slightly less than half to slightly more than half.
The problem with this theory is that it supposes nobody "belongs" at any elo other than what they're at.
For instance, someone who "belongs" at 900 Elo, will (probably) be the worst player in every single game they play until they hit that Elo. Since it only takes minor amounts of luck to win half their games in the first 10 ranked games, it will take around 30 straight losses to put them at their rightful Elo. That entire time, they'll be the worst player on the team.
Likewise, someone who belongs at 1900 Elo will be the best player on their team for many games. | Generally, you'll be paired with people around your Elo rank. This is no guarantee of them being better or worse. The worse player you are, the more likely you are paired up with people better than you. The better you are, the more likely you are paired up with people worse than you. Tough shit. That's life. |
ElliotNess | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2jt5aw | ding ding ding. and the most important takeaway from all of that, | Communication ... is the key to winning this team based game. |
mullah_madarchod | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c2jt0mx | India, IT = Information Technology
pakistan, IT = Islamic Terrorism | pakis are genocidal curs |
mullah_madarchod | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c2jt1z8 | You dumb ass, I am from a backward community. Guess what ? After 60 years of democracy and social policies, we are making progress. At least we don't commit genocide and terrorism based on our self-righteous supremacy.
India has 300 million people below poverty line - not 600 M. In comparison, America has 44 million below poverty line (world bank has different standard for developed and developing)
And better off ?? Your human development index is way lower than India's. So shove it.
India, IT = Information Technology
pakistan, IT = Islamic Terrorism | pakis are genocidal curs |
mullah_madarchod | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c2jsxy3 | Officially Bangladesh and BBC report 3 Million. Pakistan's Hamoodur Rahman Commission says 26,000. pakis are genocidal curs.
pakis did not do "atrocious things", they committed an accelerated and expanded version of genocide that was given a new name - democide.
Mukti Bahini could not be cuddly bunnies - for the same reason that cuddly bunnies were not sent to Abbottabad to kill osama bin laden. | pakis are genocidal curs |
bomber991 | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2lcwag | Meh, IDK. PC is fun, but I always seem to get some issues with it. I would say at least with consoles you don't have to install games, that you can just stick the game in and play, but that's not always the case now. At least with the PS3, some games you have to install and that takes a few minutes to do. Then when you load up the game there might be an update. But in the PS3's favor, the installation is painless, and the update process is all automatic. | Anyways, the main difference for me is that with one I'm sitting at a desk, and with another I'm sprawled out on the couch. |
MemorizinMoe | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c2l9wmu | I'm also originally from upstate New York, and the amount of "redneckism" is pretty shocking. Some people are completely in the dark at how different NYC is from the rest of the state (which basically qualifies as "upstate").
By the way, I love New York. The whole freakin' state. :) I've never been so proud to be from NY as the day when the Marriage Equality Act was passed. And today, with the repeal of DADT, I feel incredibly proud to be an American.
( | Living in Used to live in upstate NY; love your post; DADT repeal FTW!)
edit: derp, I don't live in New York anymore. |
Zealousy | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2lmw8i | Why would you want to promote this kind of lazy attitude? Even as a joke? I would prefer for the community to actually think and read over | ing everything and mashing the punish button. |
Azru | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2m6vne | Discworld MUD, ahh. Brings back the lovely memory of losing my wizard there after 2 years of playing.
For those interested: I always played with only 3 lives at me, thinking that should be enough to survive any situation. Turns out I was wrong. One beautiful day I managed to die while grouping with a bunch of friends, we were going for quite a long time at that point so I got ressed and we decided to quit for now. Shortly after one of my friends said he's going to the Hub to help recover a mate's corpse (if I remember correctly someone killed him in pvp and dragged his corpse there through a portal). My friend died as well and so I decided it's time to step in and help them sort out this mess.
I created a portal, entered it and started searching for the corpses as carefully as I possibly could. As expected I've run into an ice giant and not being able to kill him on the sight (too much background magic) I started retreating to safer areas... aggroing more giants in the process. I remember I panicked a bit and as soon as I got into an area with less magic contamination I started creating a portal. A second before it finished the giants cought up and killed me.
At this time I was down to my last life but didn't really think much of it. I've asked a Priest to come help me out with a res. Knowing the dangers of the Hub the cleric wisely decided to form a larger team before venturing there. I think 4 more people came to help aside from the priest and soon they found my ghost and corpse. One of the guys started scouting the nearby area while I was getting brought back to life. Turns out there was a giant one square away. He started fighting him but was too weak to take him on... and here's the best part...
Literally two seconds after I got resurrected the guy who was fighting the ice giant... out of 8 possible places.. wimpied to the room where my naked weakened body was standing. I got immediately slaughtered and right after that the whole server could see the message about my permanent demise. | If you're going to play that MUD never venture into dangerous places without at the very least 4-5 lives to spare or you might regret it. |
Welter | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2m6xcx | Here's a good guide by Westrice at Solomid. It will give you a good idea for masteries and runes. As for playstyle, be very passive before you get your ultimate and focus on getting as many CS as you possibly can get. Once you hit level 6, poking becomes much easier, as you deal tons of damage with Q. Speaking of, my preferred skill order is Q-E-W, maxing R at 6-11-16. Now, one thing you must know about akali in order to deal as much damage as you can : Casting Q then R immediately afterwards causes you to get to your target before your Q, wasting an auto-attack, therefore wasting your Q. The trick is to cast your Q and wait half a second to a second. Then jump at your target with R and enjoy seeing a good chunk of your enemies HP drop. | Akali is by far my favorite character in LoL. I strongly recommend her. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask. GL HF |
grounddown | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2mbxu0 | Yes yes yes. I am figuring out this stuff myself, but honesty and communication have been really helpful. It's a huge weight off my shoulders to admit that "hey, sometimes this happens" and "I'm not super experienced". It takes the pressure off of her (if, worst case scenario, you have trouble) and let's you fall back to other perfectly fun forms of play.
I was just getting busy with a partner (fingering her) and she told me something that I've found helpful - "I can be tricky". She was referring to her orgasm, but I playfully turned it right back around IRT my performance and she was cool and completely understanding. She actually said, believe it or not, "I kind of like that". Revealing yourself increases intimacy, which makes sex or sex play better . | this. |
kentherbnek | politics | t5_2cneq | c2nntmz | Nobody grew up watching Glen Beck. He has only been on television for 5 years, two of which were at Headline News. Tell your friend that three years of programming should not dictate your life. | stop your bellyaching, freshman.
Also, read a book or watch a documentary. Don't make Reddit do your work so you can try to score points politically. Try Outfoxed if you're feeling lazy. |
Morghus | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2oe0nk | What really nailed Morrowind for me was that you had to read and explore your way to quest points. If you wanted to meet someone you had to research, in the game, to get there if you didn't have a map online.
It made everything feel like I was a self-made man. In the beginning I was so weak most of my fighting consisted of screaming hysterically because I couldn't kill anything, and when I got more and more powerful I had an easier time taking things out up to the point where I felt like a god damn god. If you ever try Morrowind you'll see why I now point out the word god there.
You joined up with factions, did quests for them, fucked around and couldn't find your targets, eventually found them. Looted everyone and everything if you so chose and the gameplay actually caters to both powergaming and roleplaying with relative ease. You could choose your path pretty independently. It was actually fun to do side-quests because it felt like they mattered and that I was part of a bigger world. Did my actions have massive ramifications in the way you interacted? Nope, but it was just enough to feel proud.
Most games now have some kind of quest-indicator or kindergarden hand pointing the way, telling you how to play the game and generally telling you how to play the game before you've even seen the first 10 minutes. They generally try to limit where you can go, what you can do and how you want to do it. An example was quick travel. There are a few ways to quick travel in Morrowind - teleporting to temples and a place of your designation (was there a third teleport as well?), as well as boat and striders. Figuring out neat places to put the quick travels and figuring out how to optimize it made me feel tremendously accomplished and I could get anywhere really fast (relatively speaking).
You didn't have to explore the world. It was just really rewarding and at a point I didn't even have to look at the damn map to know where I was, even in the middle of the wilderness, because of the landmarks I recognized. Even though most of the caves looked exactly the same I still thought it would be a blast to check them out because some of them contained a small gem of lore or personality that I'd get a kick out of finding. As you got more and more powerful the exploration went faster and faster (since you could kill stuff with the wave of a hand), thus never getting boring.
Bah... I'm getting into a rant. | My favouritestest game ever because of the freedom and leaving things up to the player, and with mods it becomes absolutely gorgeous for todays standards
edit: you ...errr... might really want to add the mod that removes cliff racers. |
WadsworthBot | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2od92l | Original comment had a length of 3911 characters. The quoted comment now has a length of 2739 characters after applying the Wadsworth Constant.
>he didn't say anything until he drops the subject. Again, I know exactly what kind of fun stuff I want to try; it's just like the words are literally blocked up in my mouth.
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>I'm unable to ask for what I want, or to bring up new things to try. The stuff I'm into isn't even weird (not that weird is bad, or course), but I still can't bear the thought of actually admitting that I'm into it. So far, my plan has been to hope he starts doing something that I'm super into, and then make it clear I'm super into it. Which, I realize, is a terrible plan.
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>(I want to reiterate that none of how I feel is because of my BF being domineering or controlling. He's not at all, and in fact, I know he would LOVE it if I owned my sexuality more and could communicate better about it.)
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>It comes down to theory vs reality - in theory, I'm totally sex positive and I know how important communication is. In reality, I'm so worried about being judged or laughed at for admitting what I like and want that even with a guy that I love and trust, I just can't talk with him. It's driving me crazy.
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>Oh, and one more thing: I apparently just can't give blowjobs. It's like the whole theory vs reality thing again: the idea of giving him head is awesome, and it turns me on to think about it. But when we're actually naked on the bed together, I kind of internally freak out at the thought, and just don't do it (I think I have a fear of being bad at it). As a result, I've given him like 5 half-hearted blowjobs in 10 months of having sex. And he goes down on me all the time, so I feel like an asshole. I really want to reciprocate, but it's hard for me to describe how much of a mental block I have in my head when we're actually having sex.
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>I think I'm just insanely sexually self-conscious, and opening up about what I want would mean making myself vulnerable to someone judging me or laughing at me. I know it's not really reasonable for me to think like this, but I don't know how to stop.
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>I can't think of any reason for me to be like this. There's no history of any kind of abuse in my life, and I've never had bad sexual experiences. In general, I have a great self-esteem, I feel really comfortable with my body, and I masturbate all the time. In my non-sexual life, I'm a very assertive person and I speak up for myself all the time. But for some reason, I get naked with another person, and I just shut down. I'm 24, and I've had sex before (but not much). You'd think I wouldn't still have this issue.
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>Honestly, at this point it's making me frustrated enough that I think I should talk to a therapist. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of issue? Thanks in advance for listening.
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bodiez | politics | t5_2cneq | c2olgvp | Couldn't agree more with this guy. Very well prepared and ready to stand up for his beliefs. I went to a Southern Baptist Christian college (it was a mistake but I guess not in the sense that I woke the fuck up) and his point about being like Jesus hit home. In my college town, there were hundreds of churches. Probably more churches then McDonalds. Some of these churches had ridiculous funding and tons of additions made on their buildings year round to reach the same people who were, for the most part, financially above water.
Then you go downtown and see all the poverty. Very few churches had outreach programs, and the ones that did were a lot of the times (not all, there were some good people) because the college required community service.
He is totally right. When we as a society can act out what we want, such as giving people free health care through kindness or assistance that we can afford or do or go out and give some homeless people meals, amongst other forms of kindness, then maybe we wont get the cold shoulder. | He was right about people talking about Jesus but not following in his footsteps as far as kindness and selflessness to others, religion aside. |
f3nd3r | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2osdxr | Well, let's dissect your comment a little bit, and go over what they do have.
Call of Duty: Black Ops has kill streak rewards/care packages who the player can compete to get (or still get a care package, but that comes down to luck and minor competition).
The most common one I see personally in the game is the chopper gunner, which can be used quite effectively, to the point where often every player on the enemy team gets killed at least once (Twice isn't uncommon either, often ending a match.)
I wouldn't know with Quake, but I wouldn't doubt if there were game mods that has similar ideas.
BF3 has aircraft, though I haven't seen the beta myself yet (expect for reddit.)
Counter-strike had a few game mods (this was implemented cool because you would often just join a random server and find a new way to play the game.) I remember one that is an example of the concept, the CTs and Ts would fight to get the power up, and whoever got it was granted 5k health and increased speed. There were a few variations, and they would occasionally pop up.
Team Fortress definitely has its own version this, with the ubercharge. The two players become invulnerable, and have the ability to slay the whole opposing team at a choke point.
My point is that the concept is already here, and where it stands relates to it's popularity. The way they implement it is a trade-off, you don't get to be Godzilla strutting through Tokyo, but you do get to dominate your enemies.
Of course, it isn't persistent and takes cues from the gameplay. So it is here, albeit the concept has been diluted down and added to the mix of good ideas . The execution is not always what you personally think it could have been, so you get a case of the What ifs.
Also, I think they find it hard keep the game balanced and still interesting with the concept taken to that scale. I imagine players will learn the routine and consistently bring down the beast, taking an arbitrary amount of time. The concept alone in a pure sense I think would feel repetitive, but combined with other unique things it has its merits. One game I saw combined this concept with another (very unique at the time) idea, which has a team versus a godlike enemy. The boiled down version is that many players on one side were playing an FPS and the god player was playing an RTS. It seemed interesting at the time, but I don't think it proved too popular, although possibly just due to poor execution.
The idea of far-above-average players is a separate concept which has a few popular executions, though it definitely isn't mainstream as of now (hopefully this changes.)
None of this is to say it isn't a good idea, but it will have to implemented carefully to get right and I think studios are so busy with pushing out sequels that old ideas are selected and polished in an assembly line-like fashion, and the concept gets put in with a sane implementation based on schedule. Make a few things better then continue on. Nothing really wrong with that, but it isn't really innovative.
So that puts the idea kind of out-there for the mainstream industry, which is okay, because I think that is where the indie market should be heading. Things you just can't find else where. | I'm not saying it is here... but it is here.
EDIT: Also, a note of the scale involves crippling inconsistency, because players who have to wait theoretically up to 99 rounds to have their turn. The worst part about this is finally getting your turn and going wait - wtf am i doing? |
thrillhousevanhouten | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c2qzvsb | The girl who introduced me to my SO did the whole..."jealous Millhouse" thing as well. She tried to give her a condition on our introduction "now don't you stop hanging out with me! I'm still #1" which is incredibly juvenile. Of course me and her spent more and more time together, which is what people do in a loving relationship. The girl got very spiteful and | they're not friends anymore...it's been 5 years. |
MizerokRominus | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2rap08 | There is a simple solution for this, TwitchTV is the gaming redirect for JustinTV, go to and sign up there, then go to their games section at , find what you are looking for there, and it will redirect to TwitchTV without you having to deal with their shit website. | GO HERE AND SIGN UP:
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MizerokRominus | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2rapey | Simple solution to TwitchTV's crappy website *
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Deeezzz_Nutzz | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2reqw0 | was having the same problem. I am black and my gf is korean. Don't want to be the one to embrace stereotypes, but I am 7.5in and she has the smallest(tightest?) vagina ever. I have found through thorough experimentation that the best positions for us are just various forms of missionary. Doggystyle only works well(without me hurting her) when she is upright while I am behind or when we do it standing up. However, the best advice I can offer is to just figure out HOW DEEP you can go. Not necessarily in a numerical sense, but more so just keep going at it until you have a good gauge for what feels good and doesn't for the both of you. me and my girl have been dating for nearly a year and a half and we have had enough sex/ tried enough positions that I know when I am about to hurt her. | various missionary,stand up doggy,trial and error. |
Taniwha_NZ | politics | t5_2cneq | c2ro00t | I remember, many years ago when I was a green IT networking tech, I worked for Compaq in New Zealand doing on-site support for some of their bigger accounts.
One of them was the New Zealand Navy.
One day I got a ticket from upstairs to go out to the naval base and help one of their guys configure some networking shit. I can't even remember the specifics any more (this was 1991 or so) but the job was basically 'hang out with this guy for a day or two while he tries to get a PC of ours to interface with some custom hardware his team has built'.
No problem. I had to call the guy to organise a time and it was then that I noticed his name: Richard Hardon.
Lots of giggles in our office and eventually the day arrived when I had to go out there. I parked my car and walked over to his building, opened the front door and asked the reception guy if he could get Richarrd Hardon for me.
He didn't even crack a smile, so I obviously had to be very careful. The navy is not a place where you take the piss out of senior people's names.
So I'm sitting in a chair wating, and after a few minutes this tall lanky guy comes around the corner, strides over to me, and extends his hand for a shake.
"Mr Hardon?" I asked him as I shook his hand.
"Yeah. Call me Dick."
I didn't even smile. Neither did I call him 'Dick' for the entire time I knew him, which ended up being a couple of years. He was a seriously nice guys, very unstressed for a military man, and he was a real pleasure to deal with for work. But he was also deeply religious and devoted to both God and the Navy.
To this day I am 99% sure he had no idea at all that 'hardon' was slang for an erection. | Customer of my Compaq reseller in the Navy is called 'Richard Hardon' - we meet and he insists I call him 'Dick'. He has no idea why this is hilarious. |
raydude | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c2sk77c | You guys need to sit down and talk to some old fogeys.
The thing she needs to understand is: MEN WANT SEX ALL THE TIME. And if she doesn't want sex, then porn browsing will be had for mental material by the man. If she doesn't have sex with you and you don't masturbate to porn then you're only options are cheating and abstinence. The first is unhealthy for monogamous relationships and the second is -- for most guys -- impossible.
The thing you need to understand is: she's immature and so are you.
Your marriage has left the "everything's perfect La La La La La" (with fingers in your ears) phase and has started to get real. This is actually a good thing. Since she hasn't actually physically cheated and she obviously has a sex romance drive, you guys can work this out really easily by putting some fire back into your lives.
Go out on dates! Spend time together. Share common experiences.
Oh, and find some old fogeys or a marriage counselor and start talking about the important things. Make plans, work together and bring your lives together based on mutual goals and mutual love, instead of mutual attraction. | Its time you both grow up and that just means learning to communicate and compromise. |
Strange_July | sex | t5_2qh3p | c2smt8y | I was in a pretty similar situation at the beginning of this year. I went through with it, and had a fun time. It had it's moments of stress and annoyance, but I can almost always trace those back to my own insecurities or immaturities due to lack of experience. The situation's over with now, and I don't regret it. It was a good learning experience, and good for my self-confidence.
Only you can prevent forest fires! I mean, wait. Sorry.
Only you can know if you're ready for this. You have to know yourself and what you're willing to risk. You seem aware of the pros and cons - that it could be a fun, easy, safe experience. But you're also risking getting attached and it not working out, or embarrassment, etc. | I went through something similar and I have no regrets. Weigh what you're willing to risk and go from there. |
scaredsquee | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c2ty8u4 | In the hospital that I'm at, I use a combination of whatever soap they have and the waterless foam antibacterial stuff. My clinic site is in an area with an older population, and some uhh.... interesting characters. Some patients I don't know what kind of skin condition they have, but after they leave I feel like I have to scrub for 10 minutes so I don't catch anything. A woman came through the other week with a stomach virus. 2 winters ago I wound up in a hospital with a terrible stomach virus and an irregular heart beat due to dehydration. After she left, I wiped the room down with these harsh "non-skin" disinfectant wipes because I was afraid of getting that stomach bug again.
This all makes me sound like a crazy germophobe but honestly it's only when I'm at the hospital. Sure, I wash my hands after I use the bathroom and stuff but if I drop food on my kitchen floor, I employ the 5 second rule, I let my dog lick my face and I play with his smelly gross toys. Those germs are mine (lol) and other peoples germs in the hospital scare me. Plus, cross contamination and direct/indirect contamination is a huge thing that's drilled into our heads at school so I'm just really careful. I can't afford to get sick and screw up school, which is why I sound so paranoid. It happened to me once before, I had withdraw from the semester after I was hospitalized. | I'm not a germphobe, I'm just leery of hospital germs. My hands suffer because of this.
I'll have to look into the cotton gloves, thanks! |
yasth | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c2to1g2 | Mists of Pandarea may not be the last expansion but it will likely be the last one for a while.
You know everquest (as in the original everquest not II) had an [expansion]( released just last year, and has another coming out soonish. So there is potential for a very many expansions yet to come. | Long tail is loooong. |
Unsureabouther | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c2vxvec | She definitely knows I am not gay. I tell her from time to time shes looking really hot. She has tried a couple of times to point out girls she thinks I should try and date, I always politely decline by making up some stupid reason.
Last summer I met a very attractive girl that was visiting from Europe, lets call her Nancy. She was brought to a party I had at my house by a close friend that knew her family (it was her first time out here, first time meeting him too). Midway through the night, her and I started to hit it off, meanwhile my friend is telling everyone how he wants to get with Nancy, including my friend Maggie who happened to be there.
I go to make my rounds at the party, see how everyones doing. I talk to Maggie and she tells me her and her friend placed a bet on whether or not this girl Nancy will end up sleeping with my friend that brought her, Maggie thinks he will, her friend thinks she wont. Well end of the night comes and I give Nancy my number, saying I would love to show her around in the two weeks shes here. The next day we go out, we end up sleeping together and she ends up staying at my place for pretty much a week. And no I am not an ass, I talked to my friend about me going out with this girl and he gave it the go ahead, he knew she was into me because I guess she kept asking questions about me (she thought I was dating Maggie at first because of our interactions together, honestly).
So made dinner at my house one night Nancy was here (and pretty much staying with me) and Maggie and her friend that had the bet came over (they were passing by my town apparently, called to see if I wanted to go to dinner with them, so I invited them to join us for dinner). Maggie and her friend realized pretty quick that I was already sleeping with this girl, and I think it effected Maggie but she didnt really let onto it around me, Nancy actually mentioned her being awkward about it to me... I did see a reaction when Nancy mentioned we had sex from 10pm til 3am the night before, both Maggie and her friend's attitude both noticeably changed, but it could have just been because they felt awkward.
In the months after Maggie was much more engaged in talking with me, asking about Nancy even after she left the US. She also became more touchy with me, and then about 8 months after Nancy left is when Maggie started changing around me, and whatnot. | Slept with a visiting beautiful European blonde girl, Maggie knew about it, got to watch it all unfold (relationship, not sex!) and didnt seem bothered. She knows I am not gay. I always play it cool with Maggie, like changing around here I dont change conversation at all, I dont skip a beat or let on that I am so turned on I want her to jump on me right there... If I did I think it all might stop, and at this point I like what I have and dont want to lose it. But I do want more... |
arribous | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c2w9iln | For me, MF feels like a champ with so much potential, but falls flat in almost every way.
Starting with her passive, it's nice, but it tends not to provide much benefit for when you actually NEED movespeed, i.e. in chasing and running from ganks. It's handy to have for when you're running from fountain and between lanes, but it doesn't bring much to the game beyond that.
Her Q is probably her strongest skill, which is a bummer because it feels entirely gimmicky and pretty tricky to land reliably. A tiny change like making it seek out Champions (similar to Sona's Q) if at all possible would make this a much stronger skill and take away some of the finicky nature. The mana cost is pretty high for early spamming, which is when it's most effective. Aside from the double-bounce, it's a really inferior single-shot nuke compared to stuff like gangplank's parrrley.
Her W is really situational. The extra AS is always nice, but AS is pretty cheap to itemize for so it's not really that critical. The skill's real meat is in the stacking damage, and healing reduction. The extra damage is great to have if you're focus-firing someone, and will add up with enough items. That's what saves this skill from being totally useless. The reason why it's situational is that its effectiveness depends a lot on the enemy teamcomp. If you're going against, say...Warwick, Vlad, Sion, Akali, and Soraka, your W is going to be putting in some fucking work and making them bitches cry. But if you're against a team like Jarvan, Ezreal, Karthus, Janna, and Amumu, they're not too likely to notice the reduction in heals. I feel like this skill could be really improved if it added a DoT like Tristana's explosive shot.
Her E is by far her weakest skill. Huge mana cost, short duration, so-so range, and totally pathetic damage. It's only useful for the slow, which isn't really that impressive compared against other AOE slow skills like Singed's super adhesive. Long casting time that sort of makes it tricky to use it as an escape. At least it gives vision.
The ulti is probably the most underwhelming skill in the game in terms of visuals vs actual effect. From the image, you expect it to be this powerful, devastating wave of death and destruction, but all it really does is annoy the enemy team and throw up a giant red arrow that says "CC ME YOU GUIZE!" It takes way too long to do substantial damage, and the windup time is way too long to hit the enemy with the element of surprise like you can with Kat's ult. Often times you'll get your ass stunned after the first wave of bullets, her laugh is a HUGE giveaway.
I really wish MF was as good as the other carries, since I think she brings some really interesting skills to the table. But she doesn't have the range to be a right-click champion like Cait, doesn't have the spell utility like Ashe, and she doesn't have the slipperiness of Corki or Ezreal. A huge disappointment for me. | MF's spells don't do enough damage or provide enough utility, if you have the skills to be good with MF you have the skills to completely wreck face with any other AD carry. |
Sexual_burrito | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c30hnc8 | Man, all this hate on Hitman. Let me clear something up:
Assassin's Creed & Hitman are NOT ALIKE AT ALL
I'm a huge fan of Hitman, and I've played Assassin's creed quite a bit as well, and you cannot compare them. Just because they're both about assassins doesn't fucking make them rivals.
Hitman is made by IOI, a small indie developer (only just getting some much over due love now) who are primarily ART driven, and you can see this in the incredibly unique game style. Hitman is about how you play, what you do, and how it looks, sounds... and feels.
Essentially, it's about being a fucking badass by doing really cool shit. If you think that's stupid (which is honestly a fair argument) then the game isn't for you. I always think that IOI makes interactive movies, not video games. There is a huge element of strategy/shooting, but that's just part of the badassedry.
The game is also really hard and unforgiving of mistakes, and thus demands perfection if you want to get the perfect ratings. You spend a lot of time figuring out how to conduct your hit, and then when it all comes together... it's a really cool experience. That's Hitman.
Assassin's Creed is much more action and exploration oriented. It's in a totally different situation, with a totally different atmosphere, and is a totally different game. It too has a very interesting story, but for me it just wasn't incredibly amazing, and it got somewhat repetitive. I really enjoyed the story and the gameplay overall though.
One can definitely say that the Assassin's Creed games have way better controls, way better graphics, and basically way better everything "technical," this is because IOI's Hitman games are dated 2000, 2002, 2004, and latest 2006. IOI, as I said, are also heavily art based and all of their games, including the most recent, have a lot of apparent "glitchy" or unsmooth things in general. The Hitman games are totally worth it though, for me at least. It seems they've managed to get sufficient funding to really produce the game they've always wanted to now, and I'm expecting Absolution to be absolutely fucking amazing. | you can't really compare them, and read what I said. |
music1979 | politics | t5_2cneq | c30teiw | I quote ferris bueller quoting john lennon, "I don't believe in beatles I just believe in me."
I could be the president. I wouldn't change the fact that I have to bum rides off people. | Ron Paul. |
bugman5 | worldnews | t5_2qh13 | c30v4wv | In relativity one must distinguish between seeing (or hearing, feeling, etc.) and observing. Observers correct for time of flight . Yes, you get the effect information before the cause information, but since your not a dumb sensor and know that sound isn't instantaneous you can conclude that the thing that caused the sound occurred in the past. In other words, the event that caused the sound (sometime in the past) preceded the event of feeling the bullet ( present ). This is always true for events that are separated by a distance such that light could travel between that distance in the time interval in which those events took place. This is called time-like separation. The order of time-like separated events are set in stone and are thus said to be causally connected. This of course is assuming nothing can go faster than c. If things can go faster than c the order of time-like events can be switched arbitrarily (things that we just defined as causal...). | you didn't correct for time of flight. |
pieholester | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c3228qi | Dragon fight: one minute or so. Nothing really special. No need to use shouts, just strafe and cast some magic, pelt with arrows while the pussy is hovering, and finish with some quick blows from my melee weapon.
I finish the battle, run to the wall to gain the word, and who decides to impede my progress? Krosis.
This fucker is way more powerful and tedious compared to the dragon camping on the wall. Took me a minute and a half ( and 4 or so health porions/heals) to realize that Lydia is one hoss of a wench and can take all his damage while I sneak shoot him from the rocks. His total time, probably 3 minutes.
I love the feeling of obliterating a dragon, but I wish they were harder earlier on. That being said, I have more hours logged on my first three days of this game than my first play through of Oblivion before quiting and restarting. I even quit Fallout 3 at about 30 hours in. I just adore this game. | until you get to the elder dragons, they ain't no thang. Just sayin. |
zbaleh | Fitness | t5_2qhx4 | c32zrf2 | I've done the tristate twice, it's 12 miles and I think that is their longest event (aside from the toughest mudder that they just created). Honestly, running is the biggest thing. The obstacles are fun and break up the monotony of running, but mostly jokes.
There are a couple obstacles which require some upper body strength and pose a big challenge to some girls. These are the walls you have to climb over, and monkey-bar bridge. If you can do pullups you will have no problem with the walls, the bridge can be very difficult depending on how cold you are and how slippery the bars are, but if you can do 15+ pullups you should be fine. | Running and pullups. |
skpkzk2 | politics | t5_2cneq | c33y5l1 | yes as a matter of fact, seeing as I went to a private school, I can tell you that their expenses are quite high per student. Our school, despite having a $20,000 a year tuition still needed about $100,000 in donations per year just to stay afloat. The teachers who worked there were either priests, who were not paid but instead given housing and food, or were paid at a rate lower than at public schools. Students had to buy all of their own books and supplies for every class except a few that were subsidized by the state.
Just do the math: if a teacher teaches 20 students per year, and expects to be paid $40,000 a year, that is 2 grand per student per year for that alone. Then you have the cost of maintenance and upkeep; services such as water and electricity; non teaching employees such as coaches, accountants, lawyers, guidance councilors; Insurance (lots of insurance!); Busing; and if its private, advertising. Thus you have 2 options, either very large schools with very low faculty to student ratios (aka poor quality schools as any study will show you). Or you can hike tuition and say fuck you to those who can't afford it. If your goal is to educate everyone, then this is a horrible option. However i your goal is profit, then this option works and indeed is the only option of the two that works. | you get what you pay for |
tehrabbitt | politics | t5_2cneq | c350snw | This is the first thing i've read in a while that I can actually partially agree with... Not only is the problem Peak Oil, but resources in general. Now as I see it, this "peak oil" you mention is nothing but a spark applied to a fuse which leads to a huge powder keg waiting to blow. Eventually, Yes, Oil will become more scarce, Just like any other non-replenishable commodity. What many people don't realize, is that the world in general, is extremely dependent on oil and oil based compounds. Most of your plastics used in cars, drinking cups, water bottles, etc, all come from oil. All of the computer cases, computer components, and half the chemicals that go into most modern tech, are oil based. How about the pharmaceutics industry? Yep, Those lovely medicines that help "protect" us, oil based compounds many of them. Now lets take it one step further... The food we eat... Well, since the invention of the gas/diesel powered tractor, it has allowed abundant food for everyone to eat at "reasonable" prices.... what about heat during the winter? Well before natural gas, or oil heat, we had coal, or fireplaces which warmed the house. The problem is, the same companies who have hit what i'd like to consider their "mid-life crisis" and realize that they may not be able to survive if the price of oil triples, in cost over the next 10 years, they are jumping onto the bandwagon I like to call the "Green Scare". they push the efficiency numbers, and they push legislation requiring the BAN of incandescent lights from being purchased after this december, requiring consumers to pay more money, for CFL or LED bulbs, when their old bulbs that have been around since the 1800's finally flicker their last light. What these companies are doing, is they are realzing that they can leverage the "Green Movement" against the people. They are also making it harder for industry to stay in america too and I think that it is intentional! Now lets see.... all of our INDUSTRIAL companies, have moved to India, or China where regulations are more lax. Over the past 10 years, more laws / bills have been passed making it harder for the average company to establish themselves in the US if they generate "hazardous waste". What is hazardous waste you may ask? Well, pretty much any waste that wont compost. so your plastic byproducts, metals, acids, bases, it's all "outlawed" or should I say "outpriced". In order to start a mechanics shop here in the US. you need to have a dozen or so licenses to operate and handle oil, gas, have constant soil samples taken (at your expense), god forbid you drip a little oil by mistake, there are huge fines. Oh, and the property you invested in for your shop, good luck ever selling it, because once it's marked as a location that hazardous waste once was, the government can pretty much devalue it to nothing with "administrative cleanup costs" for the potential buyer. Now who would want all these tight regulations? Surely not big corporations, right? WRONG. Big Corporations love to have strict rules that they can abide to, even though it might cost them some money, because it keeps competition out. It's right up there with Recalls... If the cost of doing a recall is more expensive than the cost to settle a few lawsuits, Don't do the recall...
Now i'm not saying environmental protection is a bad thing, in fact it's a very very good thing, but when you charge people thousands of dollars every year, to be "handlers" of 'hazardous' waste, it keeps small business out of the picture. All the big manufacturers have plants already established overseas, where they don't have to worry about the US laws as much. this helps protect them from rising competition, and yet ensures they can "scare" everyone into buying their products as they push bills to require the use of their products as a replacement.
The Days of "Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak" in their garage building a computer from scratch and making it big, competing with IBM.... If they were to try to start "Apple Computer Inc." TODAY... they woudl be hit with so many lawsuits over "improper handling of hazardous materials" and a million other things, they would be shut down overnight. Hell, half the chemicals you need to create "new" compounds like they did back in the 1800's are now unobtainable by the general public, for "public safety"... American Innovation is Dying, because corporate greed. they don't want competition... You know, there are several anti-trust laws, however they skirt around all of them, by just keeping the competition out... go figure. Just look at MaBell... Wait, that was broken up, but alas... how many cell providers are there now ... lets see... Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon... Three... Sure, you could argue "virgin mobile" but that's really a "baby bell" once again... we are going back to a country filled with corporations that monopolize.
Now, Where do I see this leading us? I don't think OIL is really our biggest worry, as much as WATER is... or even CORN.... Did you know that most of the food you eat here in the US has CORN as a filler? Yes, that Angus Beef burger you buy at Burger King... is mostly BREAD... because it's cheaper to add lets say %20 or %30 cornmeal into the chopped meat, to "spread it out" to make it more profitable... and what about soda? Well, Corn Syrup is cheaper than Cane Sugar... In fact, the government subsidizes corn growers! There is corn products in almost everything you eat and drink. Except Water.... Now Water... Most of this world is Salt or Brackish water, and it is not drinkable. To make matters worse, we are polluting our waterways, especially in places like India, and China, and even though it's on the other side of the world, anyone should realize, that this pollution does affect the whole world... not just locally... it just takes time . How soon until we no longer can drink tap water because it's so polluted that we need to rely on bottled water that is selling for 3.65 a gallon just like Gas? I say sooner than later.
Don't forget... if a company isn't turning a profit, all they need to do, is increase prices, cut back quantity, and blame Oil prices. | Our country is filled with companies who only care about themselves and will do anything to silence american entrepreneurship. They also will do anything they can to be sure to make a profit, even if it means scaring the masses into buying their products by pushing bills to outlaw products made by competitors by bringing up environmental "concerns". |
optomas | politics | t5_2cneq | c35135d | The heart of war is land. The net is a landscape composed of data. The net was free, at one time. We were citizens of a frontier, a free land.
Physically, you are already owned. Corporations own you. They own me. They determine what you eat, what you drink, what kind of air you breathe, how long you will live.
The free exchange of information between the cattle is causing unrest. Restless cattle are detrimental to profit margins. Therefore, the free exchange of information between cattle shall be halted. | Enjoy it while you can. Information distribution systems have a history of causing widespread enlightenment and unrest, until those systems are subjugated. |
pringlescan5 | politics | t5_2cneq | c3506oi | Well I think there is a difference between people attacking the government and its policies and people who just lump in AmeriKKKA as if it was one homogeneous unit. I completely agree that all government policies and actions should be and NEED to be held to account to our moral standards but it annoys me when I keep on getting lumped in with my government when they do crazy shit.
Also on a separate note sometimes it gets annoying when people attack the united states and act the world would of been such a nicer place if it never existed. Don't get me wrong we have done so many things it would take years to go through and explain them all but at the same time as a powerful nation with lots of choices to make we are going to get some of them wrong, and that doesn't mean that overall we haven't been a gigantic positive influence for the world between our military stability, trade, and technology.
edit: | I think we both agree that its okay to attack governments but not so much the people. |
viborg | politics | t5_2cneq | c34x03a | Fucker deleted his reply after I typed out a long as shit response. Screw it, I'm dumping it all right here.
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>reddit is about ~20 years old on average (well, those who post comments, anyway). i don't blame them for it, but the paranoia and 'doom n gloom' feeling that nearly every generation fears rarely comes to fruition in the terms these people envision.
>further more, i can't really imagine what it's like to grow up in the post 9/11 era. lots of redditors don't know of a world without 'terrorism' being at the tip of everyone's tongues. add to it the most perplexing and outlandish conservative media that has ever existed plus a little 'no one from either party has our interests at heart', and you've got the makings for 'creepy survivalist website' musings to pop up everywhere in various threads.
>i'm sure i will be downvoted to oblivion for this one, but kids: things can get better, and they usually do. our world is the safest place it has ever been in the history of mankind, statistically speaking. our media wouldn't have you believe that we can patch up our foreign relations or energy dilemmas, but the solutions are out there. is America being douchey and treating its citizens poorly? sure.. that doesn't make this 'the end times.' world wars and segregation and even communism seemes to be 'it' for a lot of people. then they grew up and got some perspective.
> | don't lose your shit just because other people and our abhorrent media would like you to. take a step back and assess things on your own terms, using the world's media and resources as a means to inform yourself.
My response:
I want to upvote you for being reasonable, but unfortunately you're like the other extreme of the reddit spectrum that I find equally biased and unrealistic.
>Our world is the safest place it has ever been in the history of mankind,
Possibly if you only consider the present moment, but considering how unsustainable most of the processes that modern technology depends on are, I wouldn't say it's necessarily accurate to extrapolate future trends based on present ones.
>statistically speaking. our media wouldn't have you believe that we can patch up our foreign relations or energy dilemmas, but the solutions are out there.
If you consider climate change one of our 'energy dilemmas' then no, I'm sorry, no solution is out there. In fact, the window for us to provide a solution seems to be getting [smaller and smaller.](
So yeah, I'm glad you're being realistic, but come on...let's be realistic. We as a species face some tremendous hurdles in the near future (relatively speaking). Unfortunately the main hurdles we face also seem to be the ones most people would like to ignore. |
TommyShambles | politics | t5_2cneq | c34x7jq | Hangon one sec, yes, the United States is an enormous importer, and we have large amounts of debt, but the end of your statement, that the collapse of the dollar as reserve currency doesn't mean the end of the world for us.
Even Tim Geithner has said (before he sort of had to recant) that he'd be open to a replacement of the dollar as reserve system. Yes, other countries have to buy U.S. treasuries to participate in the world economy, but what has happened is the dollar has been stretched beyond what it was ever intended to do. Our exports are hurt because the dollar is buoyed by so much foreign investment, and we have lost policy autonomy because so much of the world economy is based on ours. If we were to cut back debt issuance and tighten the supply of dollars, the world economy would grind to a halt.
The U.S. would be better off with higher interest payments on new debt and a lower demand for debt if it was able to manage it's dollar with an eye towards the U.S. economy, and not the entire worlds.
The idea of anyone letting us wipe out our debt is way off base, but we can get to a point where the demand for our debt reaches a reasonable level. If our dollar weakens, our exports become more attractive and we can close our trade imbalance. Sure, a weak dollar sounds like a disaster, especially if you want to go to Europe, but it might be what we need to repair our massive trade imbalance, and resume actually making things in this country. | The end of the dollar as reserve currency might actually be of great benefit to the United States |
moby323 | politics | t5_2cneq | c34xmn4 | If by, "It could be argued" you mean, "It is a total certainty", then I completely agree.
People act like George Bush and Dick Cheney elected themselves.
I know the system is fucked, but it only takes moderate intelligence and a dash of skepticism to realize that it is fucked. | The Government is bad because our populace is stupid. Not the other way around. |
intrepid_pineapple | politics | t5_2cneq | c34ymm4 | I'm a flaming liberal, hippie, pacifist (from Canada no less) and when I lived in the US I realized that guns are wicked fun. And I have liberal, hippie friends who like guns too. | I like organic tofu AND shooting things. |
TenTypesofBread | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c35fdjr | We can assume that, with a 0 mph frame of reference for Solipsze, that the flash frost will be traveling at 220mph. That's a rate of 3.67 miles per minute, or 0.27 minutes per mile. | 16 seconds. HOW DO TRAINS DODGE? |
TomSwirly | politics | t5_2cneq | c35rj15 | Sorry, you still aren't saying what should be done. In fact, you didn't bother to address even a single one of my arguments.
> They didn't need tent towns to achieve their success and neither do you.
Actually, tent towns have appeared numerous times before in America's past, and yes, even for political reasons.
But let's ignore that. The fact is that straight-up protesting simply doesn't work any more - because the very news of that protesting is suppressed.
Consider that the demonstrations against the Iraq War were the largest in the history of the planet - and what happened? It barely made the evening news! It certainly didn't spark any public debate.
Consider that there were repeated and huge demonstrations against the Wall Street criminals before Occupy Wall Street - they didn't even make the evening news.
Compare and contrast with the effects of Occupy Wall Street - which has excited comments and approval from politicos of both sides and a huge amount of media coverage.
What you are saying is that we should abandon the one tactic that has been found to have some effectiveness, and go back to the tactics that have been completely useless for a decade and more.
> But what you don't do is impede on the rights of others to achieve those goals.
Every strike, every sit-down occupation, even a regular demonstration impedes the rights of others.
And as I mentioned to you before, it's really hard to think of a place to occupy that impinges on fewer people's "rights" than Zuccotti Park. | You: go back to the thing you were doing before that didn't work. Us: no. |
Robert_Goulet | nfl | t5_2qmg3 | c36qxkg | Long time eagles fan speaking. Haven't been to a whole lot of home games, maybe 10. I hate the reputation we get, but logic dictates that you don't get reputations for nothing. Yes we threw snowballs at Santa. Yes we cheered when Irving had a potential career ending injury. Yes we totally annihilated 49ers fans with snowballs. I guess we made Casey Matthews fiancé cry. I can't defend any of these things. Please keep in mind though that I personally didn't contribute to these things. I did, however, find two vikings fans after last years home game loss that fucked our whole playoff seed and told them "great win guys, we played like shit and you deserved to win." I was unlucky enough to be seated next to two giants fans this year at our home game. Unlike my friend, I stayed until the very end, and although there was shit talk during the game, I shook their hands and said "good win." Its not gonna change any perceptions of our fanbase, but to group everyone into being total pricks isn't fair. That's all I have to say about that. | I'm doing my best to not be a total dick because we have an awful rep, downvote away |
echelon3 | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c36zkq2 | I killed Heimskr also (who hasn't?) as soon as I entered Whiterun. It was my second character, and I didn't want to deal with his annoying ass. Fast forward a couple hours later, and I get attacked by some thugs. I check their bodies for the contract so I could see who sent them after me. Turns out, it was Heimskr. | A dead guy put a bounty on my head. |
yakri | relationships | t5_2qjvn | c37220p | I think so yes. You just get a different set of challenges.
-- holy fuck, I just read your entire post instead of skimming it, and it sounds creepily like my last relationship. O.o
I'm the introverted guy, and I kind of failed on the regular long distance contact thing. It can be pretty damned hard, even if you enjoy the time you spend with the person.
Well, I can't help you with much, but I can tell you that when he doesn't want to talk it's not because he doesn't like spending time with you or anything.
A lot of the time for me it was because I just didn't know what to do when not with someone in person. I mean, as a really introverted and shy person, interacting with people in person can feel pretty awkward and challenging. Now, for some people it's easier online, but for others (like me) it can be harder, especially in a 1 on 1 relationship context. When you're in person, a lot of the time you can communicate what you mean without saying much. Trying to do this over the internet can be really frustrating.
Anyway. From the perspective of the introverted guy, it's hard to even realize we're being kind of distant/not communicating enough, because it just feels comfortable to talk to someone once a day, while missing a day now and then.
For me, even with someone I love, and would like to spend at least some of every day with in person, it just doesn't bother me at all to go a while without seeing/talking to them. | for all that^^ Us introverts just aren't as bothered by not spending loads of time with the people we love, and it requires taking a step back to notice other people might not feel the same way a lot of the time.
Try and see if you can talk to him about finding an amount of interaction that will keep you happy, and if it can't be done, well, then you might need to move on. That's really not advice I want to give, but if that level of contact is what you need to be happy in a relationship, don't accept less than that for an extended period of time. |
AwesomeFaic | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c38100u | I live in NYC and St Marks is actually incredible. There are multiple professional, sterile, and well-run tattoo parlors and the headshops typically have impressive selections. The "sketchy" places are the street vendors that sell cheap outerwear, no-name pipes, and also do tattoos. Fortunately their business is limited and no one gets inked there anyway. | stop running your mouth kid. |
GrayProxy | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c3846oj | First, I'll say that I haven't argued that boosters must be banned from the game, only that they can't be left alone to do whatever they want. That said, I can see why IW (and Treyarch) often decide for the full ban.
The overall goal of the punishment structure to make boosters feel that the rewards of boosting aren't worth the investment of time and/or money sunk into the project. In other words, deterrent value.
The more harsh the penalty the less likely entry level boosters are going to be to get into it. Big example cases like this scare off a lot of people, kids in particular, who may be able to live with a leaderboard ban but not a lifetime ban of their cherished gamertag, or even a console ban.
You also want to discourage people you've punished from jumping right back into it by making it as inconvenient as possible. A leaderboard banned account can still be used, for example, as a dummy account to be killed by the boosting account, not so of a lifetime banned account.
Still, the more serious punishments need to be part of a larger structure and not the only available punishment. Temporary bans, leaderboard bans, and stat resets all have their place in the scheme of things. | Deterrent value--the fewer people get into boosting, the less resources have to be spent tracking down and punishing boosters and the more proactive you look to your rule-abiding customer base. |
algernon12321 | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c38ndkc | I think it's really great that you've acknowledged this and are actively seeking to change. You might want to just try to get more women in your life and try to have normal, everyday conversations. You don't have to like all women, some women will be really boring to you or seem stupid or childish or have interests that are completely incomprehensible to you. That's okay. Some men are like that too. Just find out what the women around you are interested in, you might find that you share a love of cooking or short stories or whatever you're interested in with her. Focus on these qualities and recognize that she thinks in a way very similar to you sometimes. She's a person, she has interests and flaws and quirks and habits just like you do.
I think your sister has left you with the feeling that women get to just coast through life and have everything handed to them. This might be true for some women, but it is also true for some men. As you start to realize that women are people just like you are, you might start to get to know some of them better and figure out that they have had a hard childhood too, maybe they had to work for everything that they have or got very little love from their parents or don't even have parents anymore. Just because the women in your early life had all the fun and got everything that they wanted doesn't mean that all women grew up that way. | Everyone is human and there are awesome, boring, and terrible people in both gender categories. |
fuccess | technology | t5_2qh16 | c38trh7 | I'm telling you if we destroy television everything will get better. Just let me destroy television. It's the reason we're not all pissed off together.
A very unfortunate percentage of US citizens get all their content from the tv. The same tv that's used to keep important thoughts out of your mind. Thoughts like, "Hey free speech just went out the window WTF is going on?" Or "Wow protesters are low-level terrorists now, that doesn't seem right."
An easy way to see that tv is a weapon of the corporate arsenal is to look at it in comparison to the internet. No one has ever threatened to take our tv away. No one is writing crooked bills to limit the tv. That's because the tv is already perfect for what they need. It keeps you from thinking about important things and focused on meaningless bullshit aka reality television and sports.
The information that comes out of the tv is controlled therefore it can stay as it is. The internet is the opposite of tv (for now). The user has the control. Not corporate interest. We can't say whatever we want on tv but we can on the internet. And the only thing the corporate agenda hates more than our ability to say whatever we want is when we use that ability. The internet is the last refuge of free speech and that is the reason it's constantly under attack and television is not.
The internet is the only thing we have left keeping us "we the people". It's the only thing left that unifies us as the people. If we decide, "Actually, fuck the government", the internet will be our only weapon. Why do you think Egypt shut it down so quickly? It was obvious that the internet was powering the problem.
[ | So I've ranted out all of that to say this: If we can't protect our only remaining voice; our only (mostly) untouched right, we are fast approaching a time of crisis. And without the internet a time of crisis will only yield chaos. We can overcome these great injustices we are facing peacefully, but only if we act now. If we let them take our last tool we are left only with weapons. |
pogiolando | technology | t5_2qh16 | c38slcg | the government is a reflection of the fucking assholes who elected them. if you want to point fingers, the first place you need to point them is in your own direction.
democracy is a failure for the same reason reddit is a failure. idiocy rises to the top via the american idol voting system. we are an idiocracy pandering to the uneducated retards valuing consensus over common sense because everybody is a sackless faggot too scared to point out the emperor's new clothes.
as long as we put karma at the end of the carrot stick, we'll always have mindless faggots running the country. | we throw stones in the glass house we created. we hate democracy's effect yet are enslaved to the mindless ease of ruling by popularity. |
shamrocker124 | technology | t5_2qh16 | c38vknw | That's what I did...
Just a little bit at the end expressing the goings on in legislation recently being like some kind of authoritarian horror story, pleading they not let the nightmare come true.
And it is EXTREMELY easy to do your part everyone.
If r/atheism can clear $100,000 in donations for DWB, there's no reason every redditor can't do his or her part with no donation required. And we the informed redditors should take this and x-post it to all social mediums available to us. | It's easy to make your voice heard (see link in top comment). Do your part and spread the word. The future of the internet, nay, freedom, could depend on it. |
redct | technology | t5_2qh16 | c38vyya | I think we're exaggerating a little bit here. Sure, we have a shitty political situation, and sure, we have corruption, but compare it to the corruption in politics elsewhere. Here, we're worried about having our representatives bought by big corporations. In many other places, even those ostensibly "democracies", their representatives don't do ANYTHING for their constituents without some sort of bribe or incentive. Here in the US, we at least have a small minority of reps that will actually stand up for their constituents' voices. We can send letters to our reps and get actual responses without having to go crazy in the process. We can get passports, dispute our tax returns, register to vote, and get a driver's license without having to continually grease the wheels with a continuous stream of greenbacks at every level. | It may be bad, but it's not that bad. |
nnotserPx | Games | t5_2qhwp | c399q92 | The "everything is either good or bad" mechanic in fallout games has always been dumb.
It's dumb in every game it's in.
There are many situations in fallout games where I as a player have made decisions that, out of context, seemed brutal and horrible but when looked at in a broader sense are arguably good.
Story time [if you don't like reading skip to the end] : I was using the FWE mod and various others to make the game more difficult. I started my game as a [former] slave, and gave myself many crippling weaknesses but a few strong points to introduce challenge and unique gameplay. I wandered out of my starting point in search of water, as I was merely an hour or two away from dying of dehydration. I stumbled upon the ruins of an old town filled to the brim with raiders. The sun was setting, and under the cover of darkness I made my way around their dwellings, stealing whichever supplies I could find. I still hadn't found water, and the effects of dehydration were starting to be more adverse. As I was leaving I happened across 2 bottles. I was overcome with relief as I proceeded to sneak out of their camp. Just as I had begun to relax and feel a bit safer, I stepped over a trap and had to sprint. Just before getting out of range I took a single well-placed shot to the leg and became instantly crippled, using the shadows to get out of sight and sneak away, hanging on to life by a thread. I use the only stimpack I had scavenged to heal this wound, but because of this mod the benefit is only temporary. I will still die if I do not gather medical supplies to triage the wound and prevent any further injury.
It is about 4AM now and I have covered a good bit of distance. I need to make it to a town to see a doctor. As I make my way over a hill I see a town on the horizon, but it is doubtful that I will make it in my current condition. Oddly enough, there is a man sitting against a rock looking toward the sky, as if under a trance. I approach him and he initiates conversation with me, asking for water. I deny him, and begin to walk away. Before I do, I glance in his pockets to see if he is carrying anything . As it turns out, he has a few stimpacks and a little bit of food. I decide that I will take these from him, and use the money I get from the supplies I sell to bring him back some water.
While pickpocketing the second item, he catches me and begins attacking. In my current condition I cannot take any risks, I have to fight him. I draw my blade and end his life in a few skillful jabs, and then continue making my way toward town. Along the way, I begin thinking....
"Was what I just did wrong? Is my drive for survival proper justification for ending this mans life? Do any of these morals really matter out here?" I even begin questioning some of my real life morals.. "In an apocalyptic situation, would I be willing to abandon my principles and morality for the sake of survival? Would I ever give my life for the things I believe in or don't believe in?"
Now to summarize [SORTA A | Out of context, I just went up to a poor and seemingly harmless man, denied him water that I had , then proceeded to kill him and take his things. I of course received negative karma for this. But in context, was any of this really wrong? using the money from the supplies I scavenged previously, I helped many like him and went on to do a fair bit of good. Was that action still morally reprehensible? Was what I did good in the grand scheme of things? do the ends justify the means?
I still wonder about these sorts of things.
A side note, this is why I will consistently defend that FO3 and FNV are better games than skyrim.
That entire game is, to this point, all about being the special snowflake. This is cool, but unrealistic and hard for me to personally get into.
I can sink dozens of hours into fallout because I feel like I'm a small part of an expansive world. I feel like a little insignificant spec in this universe of uncertainty. Every action holds weight, but when viewed from a broader sense reminds me of my inherent human insignificance, and it is a truly humbling feeling that no game has provided since, or at least not as well.
Sorry if this is a bit much, I just really really love fallout and wanted to discuss the morality system in it. also, if anyone liked this sort of narration to fallout playthroughs of themed characters in a brutal and challenging setting, a friend of mine has done a handful of them over on teamliquid.net, I can link them if you want . |
Goldface | Games | t5_2qhwp | c3911bl | NCR isn't actually socialism. If you look into some of the other terminals, they are all actually pretty much the same ideals, just NCR is an more of an oligarchy, and Mr. House is the concept of a benevolent dictator. They are all actually incredibly similar, and you also missed a few endings, depending on if you decide to go with Yes Man.
The only real difference between the three rulers is the way that they rule. Both House and Caesar represent the intelligent dictator, just Caesar is looking into the future, while House is trying to rebuild the past. The NCR is too wrapped up in trying to gain control of land that they have no clue what's going on. And this leaves us with option of a free Mojave, with no dictators, and people just living day to day.
I try to think of what Moira said in Fallout 3: you can't rebuild the glass structure of the old world, but maybe you can make it into something more beautiful. The true romantic future would be to let the Mojave run free. | They are all totalitarian, just different in their methods of ruling and their views on the future. |
justarandomperson123 | Games | t5_2qhwp | c3934i1 | Thank you, this is the one of points I missed playing NV, and now to think about it, I think it's because in the first 3 games (I've have played them all) Brotherhood was kind of the "good guys" . So when playing New Vegas, I started to see them in a different way (bunch of loonies) , but not enough to understand why House wanted to eliminate them and how that actually fitted with House's character very well.
This was actually one of the reasons I chose the "Wild card" ending. But just one of many. | Didn't understand, why House wanted Brotherhood eliminated, I thought that was the weakest part of the game's writing. Now I understand it better. |
TooSubtle | Games | t5_2qhwp | c39985r | It's more than seeing the names of the groups, it's seeing the mindsets of the groups represented as well.
Fallout 3 took a lot of liberty with the organisations, The Brotherhood and The Enclave being the chief examples, which if you've played the first two Fallouts you'll see straight away. But even things as simple as the gangers and Super Mutants are represented in a much more black and white manner than any other game in the series.
Fallout: New Vegas shows us the old names, and then shows us what those old names have become/how they have reacted to certain situations. The Brotherhood is exactly the same as it was in the first game, the only difference being that their isolationist/zealous policies have become a massive hindrance with the development of the outside world.
The NCR on the other hand has very much progressed along the same lines it was hinted it would in Fallout 2. The only major difference I believe is the loss of mutant equality large segments of its society once preached.
I agree that the tone of New Vegas is fairly different in a lot of places (mainly after you hit the strip). It has been described as a post-post-apocalyptic setting (by Avellone I believe), which I think is fairly apt. I personally think this is a failing, but then I also greatly prefer the Vegas gaudiness over the Hollywood kitsch of Fallout 3's attempt at the subject matter. | Fallout 3 tried to be Fallout 1 and failed in many areas. FO:NV tried to be Fallout 2 and overdid it in places. |
MemoryLapse | Games | t5_2qhwp | c3avq4y | For the same reason you can get a Heineken in the Netherlands for €.99 while the same beer costs substantially more in the United States (and no, that's not just differences in manufacturing or shipping costs - the margins are higher).
You live in a market that is shown to be responsive to higher prices. Ideally, price and volume factor together parabolically to create a profit graph with a vertex - price too low and you're missing potential sales dollars, price too high and you move too few units. If $100 USD is that sweet spot for your region, you can hardly blame a company for sticking to it. They have shareholders.
Quite frankly, if you don't like the options you're presented with, stop buying video games. Until you do, you're just supporting their market research data. | it's not extortion; it's business. |
nawoanor | Games | t5_2qhwp | c3b35b2 | I agree with you completely. It took a massive and risky experiment (Steam) to even begin to lead things in a more sensible direction. There were earlier efforts but Steam arrived at the right time with the right product. No entrenched publisher was willing to set such a potentially-dangerous precedent, so nothing has happened. OnLive might be another major player in the future.
Netflix is another example, and may prove to be something even more momentous if their original content programming is successful, such as with the new season of Arrested Development they're funding.
I'd cite iTunes as another example of a paradigm shift except that, while it's better for consumers, it's still terrible for content creators. The move from physical to digital was made, but none of the savings has been passed on and as such there are still the same gatekeepers. Their one-purchase, one-download system is also a complete piece of shit , but that's the fault of publishers more than Apple. Their app store however has been an unqualified success.
It will take a completely new player in the music market to finally create a new correlation between quality, availability, and profitability for the actual music content creators. The problem is that there's no delivery mechanism. Sirius Satellite Radio or Pandora (and similar services) might have a chance but they don't have the vertical integration to provide an all-in-one solution.
Youtube might also be able to give smaller production companies a chance to get their start if their own original programming is a success, but their history of botching product launches by providing the product first and the quality second is likely to hinder them.
The trend here is that these are all companies that weren't publishers previously and so they are able to see the reality of the situation, unclouded by the fear of change. Another trend is that they've found ways to make DRM something positive rather than negative. Steam lets me play anything I want, anywhere I want, anytime I want, for a lower price which reflects the nonexistent manufacturing and delivery costs. This is better than the original product . Contrast this with UltraViolet/Origin/etc, the big studios' debacle solution to digital distribution, which is DRM first, profit second, customer third.
> the internet, that has been here since a couple decades, and it's here to stay.
Is it? SOPA, Protect IP, and future bills of the same type threaten to effectively destroy the internet - and this is at a time when 2/3 of the US political system is supposedly "liberal". Also, the structure and functionality of the internet has been fundamentally changing and improving since it was first made into a consumer product; the internet today isn't the internet 5 years ago. Bandwidth is still far too expensive for OnLive, Netflix, and similar businesses to be economical in many places. Speed and reliable availability also range from being beyond optimal to being almost unusable, even within the USA where it was invented. | Change takes time, risk, innovation, money, and for a business model to be not merely in decay but in complete freefall. See [music, games, movies] versus piracy. |
mrsxpando | TwoXChromosomes | t5_2r2jt | c3bfrbf | Yes, the toxins produced from smoking pot are bad for you. However, one bowl a day is still a low amount of smoke overall to consume, compared to,say, a pack a day smoker.
This is exactly why vaporizers were invented. I would post a link but I'm on my phone. I have a Magic Flight Launch Box (MFLB) and love it. | google "weed vaporizer." |
KarmicHammer | gaming | t5_2qh03 | c3bmjh9 | Not big on the whole, asking people for stuff thing, but my younger brother (16) had a daughter a year ago, my dad has M.S. (can't work) and it's myself and my mother supporting my family plus my friend who got kicked out of his parent's house because he's gay.
My brother's friend's 360 was broken in an accident (that was half my bros fault) so he gave ours to his friend without even asking me. | I miss my 360 and even though I jointly owned it, it was given away without asking me.
Even if you don't end up choosing me to give it to, you're doing an awesome thing and I hope whomever gets it is very happy with it. =) Enjoy your upvote sah! |
mcsquiggedy | leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | c3cnca5 | Cass's Q has a 3-second cooldown; Morg's shield lasts 5 seconds, and has a 15-second cooldown. Until she get's nearly full CDR, Morg's shield will be down more than half of the time, and that window is wide enough for Cass to throw two Qs at her. Even while the shield is up, every Q after the first will deal damage through the shield. Also, I'm pretty sure that a reactive shield would not remove the poisoned condition, which means that Cass would be able to start wailing on you with E. Needless to say, every E would penetrate the shield. | Cass does way too much damage for Morg to shrug it off with her shield. |