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Flesh is a relic, a mere vessel. Why would one stick with an outdated artifice when one could be so much more?
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IEAIAIO wrote...
Nekohime wrote...
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IEAIAIO wrote...
Mr.TifaLockhart wrote...
Who can be blamed for this?The parents,the girl herself,the media? I blame the media for shit like Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant.And also the girl herself for not thinking straight for what ever reason.
It is no one's fault but the girl and guy who had sex. We live in an age where it is very easy to both get information about sex and birth control (be that the pill or condoms). There is no excuse for being uninformed or unprepared. I find teen pregnancy to be about the stupidest mistake to make.
Excuse me, but a person's action can't be reduced to his sole responsibility. Yes, it's the person who takes the actions and he *is* responsible for them... however not solely him.
The environment one acts in, and the decisions that created that environment also take a great part.
...and on this note, I can't agree. Sex education in America is often dismal, and attitudes toward birth control even more so. With the rise of religious fundamentalism and its penetration of everyday politics by the way of the neo conservatives are to blame for a lot of this.
Teaching abstinence (from sex) and downplaying the importance of birth control, preventing teens from easily obtaining birth control methods... these were all on their platter and have contributed to the problem.
Exactly...the right-wing has been trying to defund Planned Parenthood--which is possibly THE best place to get contraception ever. Yes, kids can find information about contraception everywhere on the net, but the actual access to that contraception is spotty and possibly expensive.
I don't think that TV shows glamorize having a baby, or that if they do, that it has a significant effect on teen pregnancy. In fact, the teen pregnancy rates now are the lowest in decades (source).
I can and will bring it down to their sole responsibility because in the end they are the ones who made the decision. There are plenty of alternatives to have sex if you can not find contraceptives, anal, oral, mutual masturbation, etc and even in the most conservative states it is never hard for a male to go and get condoms.
Even if they can't get a hold of them why should it be anyone's fault but theirs if they stupidly decide to have unprotected sex? Are we really going to hold up the environment and say "It forced them to have sex this way"? That is basically saying they have no ability to think for themselves. THEY chose to have sex, THEY chose to do it without a form of birth control and without using other methods to proven pregnancy and yes it is THEIR fault if they should happen to become pregnant.
Don't get me wrong though, I'm not some right-wing religious nut who thinks abstinence is what kids should be doing and that sex is wrong. I firmly believe that if you want to have sex then you should have as much as you want. But I will not believe that a teenager, or anyone of any age for that matter, can blame anyone but themselves should they become pregnant.
A person's ability to think is strongly constrained by the availability of information. Furthermore teenagers aren't adults yet. Their sense of responsibility, their willingness to think things through is not yet developed.
...so of course I won't agree with you.
When a kid comes from a household where *any* talk of sex is taboo, when they go to a curriculum that strongly advises abstinence and when contraceptives are hard to come by...
...and yet it is the *sole* responsibility of the teenagers that they end up with a kid? The same teenagers who are under different circumstances are quickly labeled immature, irresponsible? Who can go to war at 18 but not drink until 21?
I don't say that all teens are irresponsible and immature but American culture seems to do a lot to ensure they *are*.
One could also highlight the patriarchal values leading to this, since they value male conquest of females so high and is quick to put the blame on the girl.
Boy going around screwing girls = Damn big playa, a "big boy".
Girl getting screwed = Sluuuut.
...if one were to sum it up. Of course this disgusts me, but this is *the* standard attitude never the less.
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IEAIAIO wrote...
Mr.TifaLockhart wrote...
Who can be blamed for this?The parents,the girl herself,the media? I blame the media for shit like Teen Mom and 16 and pregnant.And also the girl herself for not thinking straight for what ever reason.
It is no one's fault but the girl and guy who had sex. We live in an age where it is very easy to both get information about sex and birth control (be that the pill or condoms). There is no excuse for being uninformed or unprepared. I find teen pregnancy to be about the stupidest mistake to make.
Excuse me, but a person's action can't be reduced to his sole responsibility. Yes, it's the person who takes the actions and he *is* responsible for them... however not solely him.
The environment one acts in, and the decisions that created that environment also take a great part.
...and on this note, I can't agree. Sex education in America is often dismal, and attitudes toward birth control even more so. With the rise of religious fundamentalism and its penetration of everyday politics by the way of the neo conservatives are to blame for a lot of this.
Teaching abstinence (from sex) and downplaying the importance of birth control, preventing teens from easily obtaining birth control methods... these were all on their platter and have contributed to the problem.
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skoobadoop wrote...
-It is easy to explain how scientists "slow down light". If light travels through any medium (say, for example, the distance between your computer screen and your eyes) it is going to encounter resistance from the matter that makes up the atmosphere. Yes, air is matter for those of you that didn't know.-Light always travels at the speed of light relevant to any object that is moving. To give an example...if you were standing still and someone threw a football at you at 10 mph, the ball would hit you at 10 mph (to keep the analogy simple, let's not delve into declining velocity or whatever). However, if you were running at 5 mph away from the person throwing the football, and they threw it at you, it would only hit you at 5 mph due to the fact that your speed would "cancel out" the speed of the football (This is not a scientific analogy guys, just here for example).
ANYWAY it's a little bit different with light. Light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second. You might think that if you managed to travel 299,792,457 meters per second, light would only be traveling 1 meter per second more than you, however this is not the case. Light ALWAYS travels at 299,792,458 meters per second relevant to any object, no matter how fast it is traveling. So if you actually did manage to travel 299,792,457 meters per second, light would still be traveling at 299,792,458 meters per second in relation to you.
Basically, you can never catch up to light, let alone match it. Also, light photons are massless and do not transfer momentum, which is why they are able to travel at the fastest speed. Everything that has mass is therefore not able to accelerate to the speed of light because this would require all of the energy in the universe.
This may not be as coherent as I hoped...I've been awake for like 48 hours, which is a long time for me.
Good explanation, but you're claim that light can't transfer momentum is *plain* *WRONG*. Light, *does* transfer momentum, but it's a very small energy/photon, so it almost invisible most of the time.
However it *is* there and that's how solar sails work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_sail
Einstein proposed – and experiments confirm – that photons have a momentum p=E/c,[2][3] hence each light photon absorbed by or reflecting from a surface exerts a small amount of radiation pressure. This results in forces of about 4.57x10−6 N/m2 for absorbing surfaces perpendicular to the radiation in earth orbit, and twice as much if the radiation is reflected
By using huge surfaces (compared to the mass of the payload), even the infitestimal push of light can be harnessed to accelerate an object in orbit.
Yes, this have been proven. In fact if engineers didn't take this into account several space missions would have been in jeopardy as the light pressure would have pushed the probes off course.
GroverCleaveland wrote...
Flaser wrote...
6) Mass and energy are equivalent.This means, that the energy stored in an object at rest equals c-times the square of its mass
Pretty sure it's the other way around. E=mc2 and all that.
Flaser throws ash on his head and contemplates throwing himself on his ball-pen to atone for the shame... then goes back to browsing porn.
Anyway, good catch Grover.
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Tegumi wrote...
The answer to your question, is no.The elaborate answer to your question is a bunch of other questions:
-Are you using a router? (I'd guess since you're using port-forwarding)
-Does the router have a firewall function? Can your torrent client access the proper ports?
-Do you have a software firewall on your torrenting PC? Is that properly configured?
-Are you sure your ISP is not doing traffic shaping?
Read more here:
http://wiki.vuze.com/w/Bad_ISPs
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GroverCleaveland wrote...
Richard fappington was the first man on record to admit to masturbation. In honor of his bravery, men everywhere soon began to call it "fapping" as a salute to the manliest man of all. So next time you rub one out, pour one out for Richard fappington. The man, the legend.Aye, and he was one "sexy looser". Also, something else: Girls don't *fap*, they *shlick*!
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...we shall rise! We can't let them contaminate the purity of our essence!
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What, no one suggested the Cleveland or the Boston steamer so far? Not even the rodeo position? You guys are tame.
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Gah! The Internet is not running out of *storage* or *memory* space.
It's running out of IPv4 address space.
It's running out of IPv4 address space.
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Ulzzang wrote...
Flaser wrote...
Ulzzang wrote...
KrystalFortuneTeller wrote...
Ulzzang wrote...
I'm a girl & never had any problems like that...@ the people that are hating on uncircumsized penises;
If your girlfriend minds, she doesn't love you. Move on, she isn't kinky enough anyway.
If you get penis cheese from it, that means YOU DON'T WASH WELL. Dirtbag.
If you're still being douchey, it's your loss. Loss of sensation to be exact.
LOL i must agree in every point you mention.
Thank god, I was starting to think I was the only one with half a brain or more in this thread!
One more for uncut. Nowadays, except in rare cases (such as the picture above) there's no reason for circumcision. Actually it can lead to complications that further down the line could lead to problems in one's sex life.
Also, there's been no conclusive study so far that showed a genuine benefit from the practice. Lower HVP and AIDS prevalence? Bullshit. Correlation does not imply causation. Did it occur to any of you, that males who *do* get circumcision may just lead lives that put them (and their partner) less at risk of HPV & AIDS than those who do not? In America circumcision is more wide spread in the middle and upper class than the lower.
Once again, no proven causality. Just immature journalism that can't even do basic research.
I wonder how the average american would react if a girl said she's going to cut her labia off because "it's more hygienic because otherwise you get pussy-cheese" or because "your private parts will smell like shit if you don't" or "it looks better without, because, who needs labia right?" or some crazy BS like that.
They'd probably say it's useless mutilation and that you're crazy for wanting to do that.
...
Actually American girls do. Welcome to the (full on SARCASM mode=ON) "wonderful" world of vaginoplasty, sometimes also called "designer vaginas".
If money can be made on it, people will be talked into it.
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Ulzzang wrote...
KrystalFortuneTeller wrote...
Ulzzang wrote...
I'm a girl & never had any problems like that...@ the people that are hating on uncircumsized penises;
If your girlfriend minds, she doesn't love you. Move on, she isn't kinky enough anyway.
If you get penis cheese from it, that means YOU DON'T WASH WELL. Dirtbag.
If you're still being douchey, it's your loss. Loss of sensation to be exact.
LOL i must agree in every point you mention.
Thank god, I was starting to think I was the only one with half a brain or more in this thread!
One more for uncut. Nowadays, except in rare cases (such as the picture above) there's no reason for circumcision. Actually it can lead to complications that further down the line could lead to problems in one's sex life.
Also, there's been no conclusive study so far that showed a genuine benefit from the practice. Lower HVP and AIDS prevalence? Bullshit. Correlation does not imply causation. Did it occur to any of you, that males who *do* get circumcision may just lead lives that put them (and their partner) less at risk of HPV & AIDS than those who do not? In America circumcision is more wide spread in the middle and upper class than the lower.
Once again, no proven causality. Just immature journalism that can't even do basic research.
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nbian wrote...
Zero_Hour wrote...
Hmm, could light itself be accelerated faster that it is known to travel in a vacuum? Light traveling faster than the speed of light.Well, you can't really "push" light. For you to push it, it would have to have mass and light is massless. It's already traveling at it's maximum in other words. If it were to go though elongated space then it would seem to travel faster in space that is non elongated. (Space is more elongated near massive objects like Earth making gravity)
Edit: Also if light were to travel faster than itself in normal space, then you can send message back in time violating causality again making it impossible. Unless you don't believe in causality (some scientists say that if messages were to be sent back in time then they were already sent before in the first place so it is a natural part of the timeline)
That's not totally accurate. A particle of light is called a photon. It *does* have mass, and that's why big masses attract it. It just doesn't have a mass at rest. Light has both wave and particle qualities... however this duality is not limited to light, all particles show this, this is how quantum tunneling works (which is used in some transistors).
Also the lot of you don't get what relativity is about: The speed of light (in vacuum) is constant in *every* reference frame. That's it, but this has a lot of consequences:
1) Time is *NOT* independent of your reference frame. So different observers in different reference frames would observe things differently. So an event that would appear simultaneous in one frame may not appear so in another.
2) The speed of light can't be exceeded.
3) When particles with mass at rest go closer and closer to the speed of light in a reference frame their *observed* mass in that frame increases.
4) Under similar conditions objects undergo Lorentz contraction, that is they appear to be shorter (along the axis of their movement) than they'd be at rest.
5) Velocities can't be simply added up. If two rockets approach each other at 2/3 of light-speed, they *wouldn't* be closing at 4/3 light-speed.
6) Mass and energy are equivalent.This means, that the energy stored in an object at rest equals c-times the square of its mass. Conservation of energy implies that in any reaction a decrease of the sum of the masses of particles must be accompanied by an increase in kinetic energies of the particles after the reaction. Similarly, the mass of an object can be increased by taking in kinetic energies. This is why an object moving close to light speed "gains" weight when it's further accelerated.
FTL opens a whole can of worms as the saying goes:
Causality, Relativity, FTL - pick any two. So if FTL is possible it would break either relativity or causality.
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I can't believe no one suggested Linux so far, so I will.
a) If you're studying to be a sys-op, programmer or other IT professional
b) If you need an OS with Mac's stability for a "fraction of its price"
c) If you need an OS with Mac's stability but with a waster program palette
d) ...and if you haven't used anything beside Windows, but want to try a Unix type OS
...you might want to try out Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Just download a live CD/DVD, boot it up and start experimenting. It's free and you can do nowadays a lot of things on Linux you can on Mac or Windows. Even Cory Doctorow was impressed by what Ubuntu offers nowadays and he was (still is) a hardline Mac fanboi.
Granted there *are* other Linux distributions out there. Oh, boy, are there... linux pundits can argue 'til rapture on which distribution is the best (...or which is the best for a given purpose if they're less bigoted). However Ubuntu is a good distro to start with, as it has been tailored for beginners and has very good on-line support.
a) If you're studying to be a sys-op, programmer or other IT professional
b) If you need an OS with Mac's stability for a "fraction of its price"
c) If you need an OS with Mac's stability but with a waster program palette
d) ...and if you haven't used anything beside Windows, but want to try a Unix type OS
...you might want to try out Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
Just download a live CD/DVD, boot it up and start experimenting. It's free and you can do nowadays a lot of things on Linux you can on Mac or Windows. Even Cory Doctorow was impressed by what Ubuntu offers nowadays and he was (still is) a hardline Mac fanboi.
Granted there *are* other Linux distributions out there. Oh, boy, are there... linux pundits can argue 'til rapture on which distribution is the best (...or which is the best for a given purpose if they're less bigoted). However Ubuntu is a good distro to start with, as it has been tailored for beginners and has very good on-line support.
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yepperoni wrote...
An easier way to force your computer to shut off is to hold the power button down for about 10 seconds. Although it's never a good idea to do these kinds of "hard shutdowns," I find it's slightly safer than just yanking the plug, but not by much. Just follow the usually tips like making backups and installing updates and you'll be fine.This is the recommended procedure. +1
Here's a bit more elaborate scheme of what to do if the system has locked up:
1. First try Ctrl-Alt-Del.
2. If the above doesn't work, press and release the power button. This might send the machine into sleep mode, from which you can normally wake this. This "order" has very high priority and may get the machine out of lock-down even if normal user input doesn't.
3. If the above doesn't work, push the reset button. (It's very small but it's purpose is just that - reset the machine when all else fails).
4. If the above doesn't work, push and hold the power button. The computer will stop, and you'll need to once again push the power button to start it.
5. ...if all else fails flip the switch on your PSU. This is preferable to pulling the plug, as in the later case sparks may fly and damage your equipment and the PSU's connector.
6. ...if you don't have a switch on your PSU, use a power distributor with a built in switch.
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trekki859 wrote...
eh, well probaly see a pinch for a while, a bunch of errors, well get the shit end of the deal untill companys profits take a dive, when the lose money, then they will fix it. This is not restricted to the ISPs. The end users also have a lot of old devices that don't support IPv6, so they too will have to upgrade.
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Argh! So much misinformation.
Here's the deal: Machines on the Internet need a unique address, called the IP address. There are two standards used today:
IPv4: A 32-bit number. Usually divided into 4 octets, this is why an address is usually given as 4 number between 0-255 divided by dots. Ie. 192.168.0.1 (this is a C-class address in the range reserved for internal netwroks).
IPv6: A 128-bit number. Too damn big to ever input numbers by hand. Thanks to DNS (which translated IP addresses into actual "names" that humans can use) this won't be a problem.
Why do we need IPv6? In theory IPv4 should've been enough. After all it's 2^32 or about 4.3 *billion* addresses.
Here's why:
-Mobile devices: when everything from your mobile-phone to your alarm clock will be on the net each person will use dozens of addresses.
-Always-on connections: since dial up is gone (and good riddance!) users will keep using their addresses so they can't be reassigned to another user.
-Inefficient address use: Class A and Class B addresses when sold/given away carried millions of addresses in the address space to big companies & government and education entities (ie. universities). They're unlikely to ever use these.
What can be done? Move to IPv6. Why isn't everyone doing this?
-A lot of big players (ie. Google) have already switched.
-So did the USA and other countries with enough federal/state budget.
-It's the ISPs and smaller countries that are dragging their feet as there's a big debate on *who* should cover the cost of moving.
-Some of the unused address space given to Class A and Class B IP holders will likely be resold now. (This is also called address space reclamation).
What can you do on your own to be IPv6 compliant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms
You might also be interested in this:
PS.:
This can be done and is called "dual-stack". Check the Wikipedia link above.
Here's the deal: Machines on the Internet need a unique address, called the IP address. There are two standards used today:
IPv4: A 32-bit number. Usually divided into 4 octets, this is why an address is usually given as 4 number between 0-255 divided by dots. Ie. 192.168.0.1 (this is a C-class address in the range reserved for internal netwroks).
IPv6: A 128-bit number. Too damn big to ever input numbers by hand. Thanks to DNS (which translated IP addresses into actual "names" that humans can use) this won't be a problem.
Why do we need IPv6? In theory IPv4 should've been enough. After all it's 2^32 or about 4.3 *billion* addresses.
Here's why:
-Mobile devices: when everything from your mobile-phone to your alarm clock will be on the net each person will use dozens of addresses.
-Always-on connections: since dial up is gone (and good riddance!) users will keep using their addresses so they can't be reassigned to another user.
-Inefficient address use: Class A and Class B addresses when sold/given away carried millions of addresses in the address space to big companies & government and education entities (ie. universities). They're unlikely to ever use these.
What can be done? Move to IPv6. Why isn't everyone doing this?
-A lot of big players (ie. Google) have already switched.
-So did the USA and other countries with enough federal/state budget.
-It's the ISPs and smaller countries that are dragging their feet as there's a big debate on *who* should cover the cost of moving.
-Some of the unused address space given to Class A and Class B IP holders will likely be resold now. (This is also called address space reclamation).
What can you do on your own to be IPv6 compliant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanisms
You might also be interested in this:
PS.:
will1701-A wrote...
If only we could run an IPv4 and IPv6 parallel to each other and then run a slow transition to complete IPv6, then we could delay the problem a little while longer.This can be done and is called "dual-stack". Check the Wikipedia link above.
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Xapkor wrote...
Unless your planning on running 3 instances of crysis, on triple 24"-27" monitors, i would say its a massive waste, I guess it depends on your budget though, for instance if its free as a graduation present =D then fuck yes.Also, do u need to go with Intel or are you using it for rendering or something?
Otherwise AMD and Radeon are what i would recommend, for your money.
Until Bulldozer and Fusion comes out, investing in AMD is a budget option and not something I'd recommend to anyone building a serious system.