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In Europe automatics are pretty rare. As a matter of fact, I'm proud that I can drive stick so smoothly you feel almost nothing as I shift gears (except the change in pitch of the motor).

My advice follows:

1. Push the clutch to the metal. Always do this, as cars have a different sweet spot and is the only way to ensure you've properly decoupled the transmission.

2. Be gentle with the gear stick. Get a feel for how you have to push it and don't hurry! Take your time, later on this will come naturally to you and will only take a second... however inuring this "gentle" handling of the stick will reward you in the long run. Whether you're in a beat down car with rough stick or a sport-car with a stick smooth as silk, machines appreciate careful use.

3. ...now start to release the clutch. Don't bother with the accelerator yet! Focus on the clutch. Be slooooow! Move your foot inch by inch, millimeter by millimeter if you can. Learn to kick the clutch fast, but always release it slowly. Once again as you train this will only take a fraction of a second, but start slow!

4. You'll feel it when the transmission engages... since you've moved your foot slowly you can easily hold it at this position. The car may shudder a bit, push the clutch in a bit until it stops... now start the release again. Practice this until you can hold the clutch at the sweet spot with the car only slightly shuddering.

5. Now *gently* push the accelerator. You already have a feel for the sweet spot on the clutch. Add more gas as you release the clutch. If you're gentle with both the (slooow) clutch release and the gas, you can move the car by centimeters. Focus on this! It's a necessary skill for parking and is how you actually have to start the car all the time. Practice will make this second nature.

6. When you stop for more than a moment, always put the stick in neutral. When doing so, always push the stick left-and-right, left-and-right to get a tactile feedback for having done so. The stick only moves like this when in neutral.

7. Learn when to down-shift! Idiosyncratically you should do so *both* when in need to break or accelerate fast! Down-shifting increases the torque the motor can put onto the transmission. When the motor is revving high it pulls better... when it's idling, its inertia in turn will act as a stronger break.

8. When gently breaking don't engage the clutch your speed drops below 20 km/h. Engaging the clutch early will lower your braking potential, as an idling engine actually retards the wheels through the transmission.

1. Put a towel on the bed (so you won't make a mess) and lay the Flesh-light on top of it.

2. Fold a big pillow and put it on top of the Flesh-light .

3. If you lay down on the pillows you should be pinning the Flesh-light to the bed.

4. Add more folds/pillows if necessary.

5. Put a folded up sock or another pillow beneath the Flesh-light if your bed's too soft to keep it aligned.

Happy "banging"!

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In fact there's a practice nowadays to freeze some of the blood from the umbilical cord, as the stem cells in it are genetically indentical with the child and later on in their life may come very handy.

Since the performance of single cores can't be increased as rapidly as it had been in the past, the future of programming is in parallel computing. More cores are better at parallel computing. Hyper-threaded cores are better at parallel computing than non hyper-threaded cores.

...future programs therefore will take better advantage of multi-core processors, hence my advice is to give it a rest and see how it turns out.

Unfortunately, since game development is console centric, it may be only after a new generation of consoles are released that you see the same boost in gaming. Right now only the PS3 is a true multi-core platform.

I'm not sure these programs would've turned into the clusterfucks they are if there was more government regulation (and enforcement) in place, however I do have to concede that the policy was fundamentally wrong.

I also have to accept - though I never claimed it wasn't so - that government intervention can be harmful.

However I have an interesting question: Who was behind the Community Reinvestment Act?

I have a nagging suspicion that beyond the socialist leaning of the Democrat party, there was some corporate interest in the back pushing for what's effectively yet another government subsidy, like how you have agriculture subsidies today that are pretty much wealthfare.

Since this is just suspicion I have to accept that these government policies were at fault and are proof that socialist policies can be harmful on their own without outside "corruption". (Though the same could be said of any political ideology, no party/school of thought has monopoly on stupidity or ignorance). I wrote this down to show that I'm capable of criticizing and accepting criticism of my "own side" as well.



I'm not ignoring that the government was *also* at fault. Granted this must've been lost in my crusade against chriton hard line libertarian jihad that would lay the blame *solely* on the government.

What I want to do is point out is that the basis of the crisis is the parasitic enmeshment between government institutions and corporate money.

Right now, the true masters of the system are those with the money. They control elections through lobbying. They also have vested power in institutions like the FED which act like a state within the state with only limited oversight from actual elected officials. Nominally the public still has power through officials nominated by the president, but he's under so much lobbying pressure that no candidate with a true regulatory agenda ever gets the nomination.

Corporate interest has also come to control the academia through think tanks and research grants that come with the implicit demand for ideological compliance. This has lead to the domination of neoliberal policies and the prevalence of the Austiran schools of economics.

I'm not arguing that the government is not at fault - it very much is!
What I *AM* arguing though, is whether this corruption is an inherent quality of governance or something that has been achieved through decades of work by corporate interest... I'm inclined for the later and believe that this overtake could've been thwarted by more political involvement from the public.



The government is capable of mistakes. There I typed it out... and I believe it too. Once again, I believe we're not on the same page, since I wasn't arguing that government was infallible. What I *am* trying to say, is that corruption by corporate forces is a bigger reason for the situation than an inherent, structural failing of government.

Can the government solve the situation? Not without massive reform that'd replace key players. Maybe the current government can't be saved since it's too corrupt and enmeshed with corporations.

I can actually agree with moderate libertarians/liberals that want to solve the problem by putting more power into state/local hands, especially since these would increase political involvement from the public at large.

What I can't agree to is getting rid of all government regulation, hoping for the invisible hand to fix it all, as this would only exacerbate the current situation.

For all I care he could've been raping midgets and drinking the blood of the virgins... what the fuck does that have to do with government policy? ...or the correctness/falseness of the theory he put together?

You're demonstrating why Republicans can't do honest academy research and/or debate: you inevitable turn to personal attacks and the other myriads of rhetoric tricks that are effective at shaping public opinion but which have no connection to the truth.

Using the very same "arguments" once could attack Upton Sinclair's works since he never worked in meat packaging and therefore he *couldn't* have written honest investigative journalism/fiction.

PS.: Could you actually link me to the biography in question? Hearsay on a hard liner free market discussion forum is does not qualify as an unbiased source... especially when they fail to cite their sources.

Why am I not surprised that you're trying to sidetrack the discussion?

You haven't addressed any of the issues I've mentioned earlier.

Moreover the article you pulled in doesn't validate your stand et all: Fannie Mae was privatized in 1968. It's disruptive behavior can be dated from the very same moment. In other words, Lyndon B. Johnson created yet another beast like the FED, an institution not really controlled by the government, yet having an exempted status that puts it above the normal prudence of law.

You might argue that the government should have regulate Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac, but the fact still stands that these are private corporations that acted fraudulently and not direct government policy.

...so your basic premise, that the "government is to blame for all of this" is categorically false.

Once again, it has a share of the blame, but the distinct core of the problem was the sociopathic greed of a privatized institution that has slipped the reins of government regulation.

To actually help you, we will need more information:
A) Missing shortcuts

1. What are the shortcuts pointing to? Are these for programs, some location/file on your hard-drive? File/location on a network/home-group?

2. can you recall what update you installed? In Windows 7 you can actually check the log up windows updates.

3. If they were standard icons like My Computer, Network, etc. you just need to right-click your desktop --> personalize --> set visible icons, and readd these to your desktop. Some update could've reset your desktop preferences, so these icons could "disapper".

4. Windows now has a built in spyware/virus removal tool now that's usually installed through windows update. It could've removed your shortcuts, as there was a bug earlier that exploited a vulnerability in the icon rendering engine... though I kinda doubt this would've removed your icons, it's a remote possibility.

B) Restarting computer:

Please list what the configuration of the computer is (CPU, motherboard, etc). and what OS is running on it (Windows XP, Vista, 7, some flavor of Linux, etc).

If it's some version of Windows, press F8 during startup and try to boot into Safe-mode. If the system boots, check the error logs (Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Event log) for what could be causing this behavior.

Exactly, you got it right and I believe so did everyone else...

...except for chriton, who I believe is either a brainwashed GOP pundit or a GOP propagandist who actually believes the drivel he's spouting.

Insurance companies don't "just pay the money". They dictate which hospitals one can attend, what procedures one is eligible for and so on... in other words since they take away the person's freedom to choose all of the above, then they're responsible for all these services.

What the fuck are you two smoking? Since when can a government force any business institution into making any deal? You two have it all backwards.

The banks pretty much did every dirty deed in the book, but the one word that best described their conduct is FRAUD. There's a reason why fore-closures are being handled in kangaroo courts and hushed through as fast as possible... because often times the paperwork is very suspect. They sold rotten deals even when the home owner could've qualified for a decent one. They sold these deals to people who clearly didn't understand what was at stake... because they had nothing to loose, since they were going to sell the deed soon enough and wash their hands of it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-courts-helping-banks-screw-over-homeowners-20101110

Next these "investment banks" called these rotten deals sure winner investments... and sold them to unsuspecting investors. Finally to add insult to injury they took out a credit default insurance on these rotten deals, so *when* they defaulted - not *if!* - the investment bank would be sure to make a tidy profit. It's like I sell you a car that's about to explode, then I take out an insurance with me as a beneficiary when you die.

...and you say it was all just the governments fault (Enek) or that actually the government forced things to be this way (chriton)?

You two need a reality check.
1. Even if the government is at fault for not catching a criminal, the person committing the crime is still just as guilty! In fact Wall Street has been lobbying for 20 years, claiming that since they're such a responsible institution such things would never happen... except the very moment government started de-regulating (Reagen himself said, that he was in the "deregulating business") they did exactly that.

2. ...how the fuck would the government actually force these banks to do all these illegal things? Let me make this clear, just because no one was convicted yet, doesn't mean there was no crime... it just means America is so fucked up, corporations can't be made to account for anything.

3. Finally said banks had the nerve to actually ransom the nation. This is how it actually went down:

"Unless you bail us out, the economy is going to collapse!"

...and so the tax payers were made to ponny up, and make sure these bastards got ever richer.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/wall-streets-bailout-hustle-20100217

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Q: Beyond money what do I need?
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Only a handful of translation teams have scanners of their own, who're usually busy scanning stuff the team wants to translate anyway. So if you want something translated you'll usually have to provide a RAW of your own.

Most teams are willing to do the cleanup on their own, but if the raws are really atrocious they won't deal with you.

Since nowadays most "translation" sites are compromised either of a team of translator/editor or people who can do both, from this point on I'll just refer to the team as a whole, unless the team/person only specializes in either.

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Scanlations typically preserve reading direction, so manga/doujinshi will retain right-to-left layout. Whether sound effects are translated vary by scanlator, though typically they're left untranslated as they're hard to replace since they're outside speech bubbles.

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This post is still WIP.
If you have some relevant data or you're translator yourself willing to do commissions feel free to post and I'll it to the list.

...and another one:

Your just trying to sidetrack the conversation.
Insurance companies still ARE responsible for the hospitals.

Who else is responsible? Who could make the conditions better? ...and if insurance companies are not responsible, then why the fuck should I pay them a penny?

If I pay for a service, I better damn get it.

People are not paying the fucking insurance so they won't have to pay more later... they're paying 'cause they want medical coverage!

If you peddle a service, then you fail to deliver, then yes, it's your fault, you're the one who took on the responsibility by taking the money for it.

No stroll down memory lane is complete without this bit (...at least if you're old enough to remember):

You're confusing agency with responsibility. It's the doctors and nurses who run the day to day business of a hospital, however it's still the insurance companies' responsibility to insure they do in an adequate matter... because they've got the our dough and therefore the responsibility to insure we get our money's worth. In fact that was the reason the whole insurance scam came to be, since they claimed they'd do a better job than the state.

To throw a few buzzwords out there: ISO 9001, auditing, auditing agent... look these up, and see how it's normally done in responsible industries.

1. You called the protesters demand for free net and communication idiotic.

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2. Your argument that corporations paid for the infrastucture therefore they own it lock stock and barrel is not exactly honest:

The corporations didn't pay for all the infrastructure they're using.
The consumers did. Whether as part of the price tag, or as subsidies by the government... or as it actually happened a combination of the two.

I know all of this is like Marxism to a libertarian, but we'll just have to agree to disagree, since as a social democrat I can't agree to raising the right of ownership above the common good, for the need of the many outweighs the need of the few.

Even as an entrepreneur you have to be accountable in some form to the public at large, since your property has such a massive impact on their life... hence why government regulation and intervention is a must. Trickle down economics and lassie fair capitalism have been proven to be inviable, as you've had massive monopolies rising up and exploiting both consumers and employees, union busting and setting the price unfairly.

Finally, you once again pulled out the AT&T parable, which is a false analogue, since you've had a private corporation fighting tooth and nail to remain a monopoly and government finally breaking it up. Anti-trust regulation was already in place, it was just not getting enforced thanks to massive lobbying by AT&T.

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3. My prime problem with handing the keys over to corporations is that they're not accountable to the public in any form whatsoever. The government is... except its already overrun by corporations.

It's like the Augean stables, except not only is it filled to the brim with shit, but stable boys (officials) are bribed not to clean the shit up and the stable is overrun with vampire pigs (corporations) who're feasting on the horses blood (the national assets).

Your "solution" would mean getting the stable boys out and handing the keys over to the vampire pigs.
I say we go with a good 'ol Herculean cleanup: get the horses out, and let a flood wash away all the filth (...and let the pigs drown).

In real world terms:
-Stop subsidies, take the rich off wealthfare. (Read the book with the same name).
-Fire all government officials who had any connection to corps they're meant to regulate. Hooray! You've just made SEC an effective regulatory body.
-Reform election funding so lobbying can't be done. No more corporate funding for representatives.
-Take away personhood from corporations.

Yes, it IS THEIR FAULT! They're the one with the "cold hard cash", so to speak. They're the "boss", who decides what goes and what doesn't. They're the ones who should enforce a good environment.

Excuse me, but IT IS THEIR FAULT! The main supposed, "benefit" of an free-market insurance based system is that an insurer should be a better host than the state, since it wants to get the most for its money... hence why mere trifles like "customer satisfaction", should be at least better then in purely state run systems.

About the "cell phone" issue, way to misinterpret the message FPOD:

"93% believe that communications like cell phone and internet access be a right and not just reserved for the rich and we should have free internet and cell phone service as a national goal."

You once again fail to grasp, that a "free service", doesn't mean no one is paying for it... or you actually do grasp it perfectly well, except as a libertarian you're unwilling to accept any system where you "pay by default".

You focus on the hardware, citing manufacturing and operational costs.
These people focus on what the system brings to the people and how technology has transformed communication. Without Internet access, without having a phone that you can use to reach out to the net, to broadcast and disseminate up to date information, freedom of speech and expressions are not possible.

System owners and operators are in the process of undermining those rights, by claiming overt power over the system they oversee. The whole net neutrality issue is around these concepts. To what degree can operators claim ownership over networks? Can a company literally own the radio bands, if a company is in a monopolistic position, does that grant it the rights to monitor and police thoughts?

Your post hasn't addressed any of these issues, merely citing that the costs have to be paid. (As they're being paid right now by consumers in the end).

I can accept your stance, however calling people names or stupid for demanding a free service - like how we have free roads and free radio broadcasts - is foul play, for instead arguing why such a setup is harmful you make base attacks on the character of the speaker(s).