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What does "no explicit time dependence" mean in this context? :
A symmetry of the KdV is given by $$\tilde x=x, \tilde t=t+\epsilon, \tilde u =u$$ as there is no explicit time dependence in the KdV.
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In Physics, the notion of explicit time dependence denotes equations where the time parameter t occurs "freely" and not only as a $\frac{d}{dt}$. So an equation of the form $v(x)=a_0t+v_0$ is explicitly time dependent, but $a(x)=a_0$ is not.
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Thank you, Dominik. Just to confirm my understanding of your explanation: the partial derivative wrt $t$ does not count as explicitly time-dependent, only an actual factor of $t$ in the equation does? – Henry Nov 24 '12 at 19:59
That's right. Another commonly used word for this is that the equation is autonomous, a word which for unfathomable reasons doesn't appear in the wikipedia article on differential equations. – Harald Hanche-Olsen Nov 24 '12 at 20:24
Thank you, @HaraldHanche-Olsen ! – Henry Nov 24 '12 at 21:45
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Here is the problem:
A rectangle has its base on the x-axis and its upper two vertices on the parabola y=12-x^2 What is the largest area the rectangle can have, and what are its dimensions?
Well, I don't really know where to start. My initial idea was to find inflection points because I figured that is where the vertices would be, but there are no inflection points because it is a parabola...
Then I though about finding where the derivative and the parabola cross, found it, but I don't know how that will help me.
I really don't know where to start.
Any help is appreciated, thanks.
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You should be able to express the area of the inscribed rectangle in terms of $x$. Differentiate that, and find the values of $x$ that make it zero, and check that your results do correspond to a maximum. – Ｊ. Ｍ. Dec 21 '11 at 16:57
Okay, so: xy=A, X(12-x^2)=A, -3x^2 + 12 = 0, x = 2, y = 8, Area = 16. – user21589 Dec 21 '11 at 17:06
@user21589: Almost there! Area is $2x(12-x^2)$, base goes from $-x$ to $x$. If you have doubts, picture will take care of them. You found the area of the first quadrant part of the best rectangle. – André Nicolas Dec 21 '11 at 17:17
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Have a look at following picture. Does this help? Can you get (using this picture) area of the rectangle?
You should get $A(x)=2x(12-x^2)$ as mentioned in André's comment.
After getting this expression for $A(x)$, can you continue with the solution? What will be $A'(x)$ and where is it equal to zero?
You have $A(x)=24x-2x^3$, which means $$A'(x)=24-6x^2.$$ Solving $A'(x)=0$ gives $x=2$ and $A(x)=2\cdot2\cdot(12-2^2)=2\cdot2\cdot8=32$ as you correctly stated in the comment.
(There is also solution $x=-2$ but that one is not interesting for us - we are looking for $x\ge 0$ since we denote by $x$ the point to the right from $0$.)
parabola and rectangle
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Whether I use 2x or x, I still get x=2 in the end, and y = 8, thus area = 16. Did I do something wrong? Assuming above equation, next step is 24x-2x^3 = A, -6x^2 + 24 = 0, x=2, y=8, area=16. – user21589 Dec 21 '11 at 17:30
The only think to do is multiply the area by 2, to get the whole rectangle. Otherwise your solution is fine. (It should be also clear that you should get the same $x$ when you maximize the area of rectangle or half of this area.) – Martin Sleziak Dec 21 '11 at 17:35
Ah, I see exactly what you mean now. Thanks. – user21589 Dec 21 '11 at 17:38
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I'm a graduate student and I'm looking for summer schools to attend this summer. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51190 | RGB LCD Shield for Arduino 65K color KIT V2 Assembly Guide
The RGB LCD shield for Arduino 65K color KIT includes all the components to assemble a ready to use LCD shield for Arduino and compatible boards like Freeduino.
First the schematics:
The LCD module has a backlight made of 2 white LEDs that requiere approximate 9V with a max 19mA current to work. As this voltage level is not available on the Arduino board, I used an ST232 RS232 driver to get 8V DC from the standard 5V Arduino power supply. The backlight driver circuit now included in the main RGB LCD shield PCB.
The first step is to unpack the KIT.
It contains the following components:
1 x RGB LCD module
1 x RGB LCD shield PCB
1 x LCD module to PCB soldering adapter
1 x LM317T variable voltage regulator
2 x 10uF electrolytic capacitors
5 x 0.1uF ceramic capacitors
1 x 330 ohm resistor
1 x 430 ohm resistor
5 x 1Kohm resistors
5 x 1.3Kohm (1K3) resistors
1 x 28-pin male breakable header (you need to cut 2 8-pin sections, 2 6-pin sections)
1 x ST232 RS232 driver IC
1 x 110 ohm resistor
Let’s start with the main RGB LCD shield PCB. The LCD module needs to be soldered first. Separate the LCD module and a small green thin PCB used to attach the LCD module to the main black PCB.
Apply some solder in one of the pins of the LCD module, you can choose either pin 1 or pin 10 (pin 1 is the one to the right of the picture).
Once the solder is applied, place the small thin PCB and align the 10 pads to the 10 pads on the LCD module. Heat the pin that has the solder to attach the small thin PCB (the adapter). Once you are satisfied how it is aligned (make sure the pads are correctly aligned, to avoid shorting the pins), solder the rest of the pads.
Now it is time to solder the LCD module to the main black PCB. The process is the same, apply some solder in one of the pins (1 or 10) and align the LCD module with the adapter to the 10 pads on the black PCB. Solder all the pads. Be careful to not add excessive solder to create shorts in the pads.
The LCD part is done. We need to check for any short circuits before advancing in the assembly process.
Next we are going to solder the headers. Cut the included 28-pin male header into 2 x 8-pin and 2 x 6-pin headers. The picture shows a female 2×3 header that is not included and is not needed in the new version of the KIT.
Solder the pin headers and plug it into the Arduino (Freeduino, Seeeduino, *duino) board to check it is not causing any short to the main board.
Unplug the RGB LCD shield from the main board and let’s continue with the Power Supply (Voltage regulator). This part of the circuit, takes 5V from Arduino and using the LM317 variable voltage regulator, generates 2.9V to supply the LCD module. The components are: LM317T, 1 x 10uF electrolytic capacitor, 2 x 0.1uF ceramic capacitor, 1 x 430 ohm resistor and 1 x 330 ohm resistor.
Solder first the LM317 voltage regulator. Then you can solder the 0.1uF ceramic capacitors C2 and C3. Orientation is not important for the ceramic capacitors. Then solder the 10uF electrolytic capacitor, negative leg to the left, positive (long) to the right. Next you need to solder R12 430 ohm resistor (you can follow the guide in http://www.bpesolutions.com/atechnical/ResistorQV.pdf to calculate the resistor colors). 430 ohms is yellow, orange, brown. Then solder R13 330 ohm resistor (orange, orange, brown). The power supply section is complete.
This is how the board looks now with the power supply section ready
Plug the RGB LCD shield back into the main board and verify that there is no short circuit.
And make sure you get 2.9V from the voltage regulator following the next 2 pictures…
Next solder the 10 resistors used to create the logic level converter from 5V to 2.9V. We will be using 5 x 1K and 5 x 1.3K (or 1K3) resistors. 1K resistors are coded brown, black, red and 1.3K resistors are coded brown, orange, red.
This is how the board looks with the voltage dividers (10 resistors) soldered.
Next we need to assemble the step-up circuit. You need the MAX232 (or compatible) chip, 1 x 110ohm resistor (current limiting resistor for the LCD backlight), 1 x 10uF electrolytic and 3 x 0.1uF ceramic capacitors.
And this is how the complete assembled RGB LCD shield looks like
The final step is to insert the RGB LCD shield into the main board and run some tests
The sample code is self explanatory (You don’t need to mess with the setup code, just look for the piece of code that sends the characters to the screen, how the dots are turned on and off, etc. I created 2 codes, one using digitalWrite() and another one using direct AVR I/O… I found the 2nd method to be almost 10 times faster, and drawing things on the screen, you can notice the difference in speed.
The sample codes are here:
Sample using digitalWrite()
Sample using direct AVR I/O
Click on the source code and copy the contento to Arduino, or download the .txt files and rename them as .pde
20 Responses to “RGB LCD Shield for Arduino 65K color KIT V2 Assembly Guide”
1. Jim F. says:
Thanks for the detailed instructions! I found the LCD tricky to solder (clearly, I need more practice) but the rest was smooth sailing. The direct AVR is definitely preferable to digitalWrite. So, when will you have sample code for the Netduino?
2. Robert Mitchell says:
Simply beautiful board and display. You should add a sentence about installing the R14, 110 ohm current limiting resistor. Although anyone capable of soldering this board won’t have a problem figuring it out. Not for novices.
3. Jim S. says:
I’ve only been dabbeling in electronics for about 8 months now. This was about the 6th kit that I put together in my life, so I was worried. It took about 1 hour and only 1 mistake. (Not enough solder on LCD anode and cathode pins 9-10) so I got no backlight till I fixed it. I D/L the reccomended the Henning Karlsen sketch and to my suprise it work just right.
Thank You. This is a great kit and great instructions and fun to build.
4. Dennis Clark says:
What R14? There is no R14 in the schematic, hmm, there is no MAX232 in the schematic either. Can we get an update?
5. Jeff says:
The assembly was pretty straight forward, but is anyone else having issues with the sample code supplied by this site? When I open it, it’s all smushed together. And when I go through it and separate the lines of code, making sure only the comments are commented out, I still have problems. The Arduino software can’t successfully compile the code. Any help would be appreciated.
• Ali F. says:
You are right. The code is flawed. The printString() function has undefined variables as well as malformed for statement.
Please share a readable and correct code.
One more thing. How should I check for short circuits?
• admin says:
renamed the code as txt and it is readable now.
The code is not flawed. It compiles without any errors.
6. Dennis Clark says:
I built it and it works as advertised, how refreshing! But the demo code just says “MKC Electronics Arduino One Stop Shop”, displays four boxes and blinks a smaller box in the lower left corner – None of the cool things on the pictures above are there – I’ll have to keep looking for that code I think.
Thanks all,
7. Kevin says:
I agree with Dennis, just the text and four boxes and circle, nothing after that.
Also, any advice on backlight? I get none now, and was just making sure that it was supposed to be turned on in this first example…..
• Kevin says:
Still no backlight, no voltage out from max232 pin 2 – how do I trace this back to figure out where the problem is? Also, a socket for the max232 might be better, otherwise I’m just worried that I fried it.
• admin says:
I did not include the socket to keep the footprint low…
• admin says:
Let me think about the max232 trouble shooting…
• Kevin says:
I checked the datasheet for the max232 and saw that pin 15 was gnd and 16 was Vcc. Since your schematic breaks these pins away from the picture of the max232, it was not clear that the 15/16 on the drawing to the right referred to the pins on the max232.
Once I saw that this was the case, I put my voltmeter against the 15/16 pins and my backlight flashed to life (bad solder joint).
If you fix the schematic to show that 15 and 16 are part of the max232, troubleshooting will be MUCH easier.
8. Kevin says:
How can I trouble shoot the backlight? I get no voltage all the way back to pin 2 of the max232.
Posting this again in hopes that the moderators come back and approve my post(s)
9. Kevin says:
Since there is no contact information here to allow us to submit ideas and you don’t list this product on your website I will try here.
It would be better if the 5V that goes into the max232 would be switchable, IOW, put it on a digital pin and turn that pin off and on as backlight is desired. |
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Great, so 10 reputation is required to answer the question. This doesn't stop anonymous and new users from spamming edit suggestions. Could the same restriction be applied to suggested edits to the protected question and its answers?
As this would only apply to protected questions, which evidently attract not-so-good attention, it would not hinder new and anonymous users' ability to edit for the most part.
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thanks! mee too! – FlavorScape Jun 21 '12 at 22:12
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I agree with this, but I also know what the answer is going to be: this is why suggested edits must be peer reviewed.
Suggested edits were created to crowd-source editing, and one of the goals from the start was to invite the entire world to suggested editing. This only works, of course, if:
1. The community takes some interest in the suggested edit queue, and
2. Suggested edits aren't merely rubber-stamped by the community.
When suggested edits were first introduced, they were approved or rejected almost instantaneously, literally in the blink of an eye. Nowadays, it's not uncommon for flags to sit in the queue for hours. As I type this, there are 140 unapproved edits in Stack Overflow's Suggested Edits queue, a fairly typical number these days.
As to your suggestion, proportionally there aren't that many questions that are protected, so I'm not sure this would make much of a dent unless you required 10 reputation for all suggested edits.
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But: people make mistakes... (Kudos Sha Dow Wiz Ard.) – Arjan Jun 8 '12 at 17:11
Most of what you write does not apply to other sites, does it? It's an SO-only problem. The suggested edits queue on SU works well, but reviewers might lose interest if these protected topics keep getting spammed. – Daniel Beck Jun 8 '12 at 17:11
@DanielBeck: Yes, my answer is SO-specific. – Robert Harvey Jun 8 '12 at 17:12
Removing the SO specific content from your answer, and assuming reviews work, as they do on SU, what's left of your answer is basically the first paragraph. Now those reviewing peers have an issue with just anybody being able to suggest edits for any topic: spammers can't get to the protected ones, so they need to clog the review tubes with their spam. Of course there's a downside to restrictions, but that's why we have topic protection in the first place: Why should non-partipants be able to edit, but not answer? Value of freedom for 0 rep non-participants need to carefully be weighed here. – Daniel Beck Jun 9 '12 at 14:23
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I just had to lock an answer temporary on, because it was hammered with spam edits. The question was locked already without any effect.
I think our users should do something more productive than fighting spam which could be prevented so easily.
The current setup puts the burden onto the reviewers. This is bad, especially on smaller sites.
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No. This would not solve your problem and it would have negative consequences.
Protection is a blunt instrument. It doesn't merely prevent unwanted bad contributions, it also prevents wanted good contributions. Everybody has to start somewhere, and protected questions typically are the ones that got the most exposure, so new answerers are slightly more likely to want to make their first contribution on one. We only put up with protection because it saves a lot of clean-up work.
Protection already prevents new users from contributing answers. Allowing them to suggest edits at least gives them an outlet to provide improvements. Since these contributions are reviewed, there is no reason to block them automatically.
Protection has nothing to do with edits. Suggested edit spam isn't specific to protected questions. I've never understood why spammers fixate on certain question; they don't go by popularity. Preventing suggested edits specifically on protected questions would be no more effective than preventing suggested edits on questions whose number is prime. It's a meaningless criterion.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51197 | When reviewing answers in the "low quality post" section, I sometimes come across posts that are actually answers, but that are -- in my opinion -- bad or wrong answers. Stack Overflow deals with bad answers by voting down, not deletion.
However, I have the following choices to select from:
• Looks Good -- No it doesn't; it's just wrong.
• Edit -- I cannot repair the answer without entirely changing it (i.e. providing a completely different answer).
• Recommend Deletion -- I wouldn't recommend deleting it, as this is not what we (used to) do with posts we consider wrong or misleading.
• Not Sure -- No, I am sure it qualifies as answer (e.g. not as comment or spam or such), just not as very good one.
So, neither of these options seems to fit. The closest thing would be to visit the post, downvote and say "Looks Good", but that seems to be contradictory.
How is this supposed to be done?
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Users with 20K+ rep can vote to delete downvoted answers. Something I certainly do on an answer with no value at all. You can now too. – Uphill Luge Aug 18 '12 at 14:13
@UphillLuge: Doesn't that kind of negate the system of regular votes as quality indicators? That's one of SO's biggest strengths, if you ask me. – bitmask Aug 18 '12 at 14:16
There's a similar discussion in regards to the low-quality flag here: "What does the “very low quality” flag mean in regards to answers?" – Brad Larson Aug 18 '12 at 14:19
@bit - No argument from me, Review is not a substitute. Merely a clean-up option when everybody stopped voting long ago. – Uphill Luge Aug 18 '12 at 14:20
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If it answers the question...
... but it's wrong, down-vote it. In addition (or in alternative if the mistake is not so critical), add a comment as well so you help the answerer fix the answer.
... but it's low quality, you can down-vote it and/or vote to delete (if you are a trusted user), in case you don't have enough reputation, flag it for moderator attention and choose "very low quality".
Additionally, whenever it's possible, you can edit the answer. This is encouraged. Don't forget that editing shouldn't change the basic meaning of the post so if it's completely unsalvageable, just go with the hard way.
If it doesn't answer the question...
... vote to delete it. It should be a comment or deleted altogether.
Now, regarding your question, you should choose "looks good" in my opinion. Neither of the options look good because you're using the Review tool to evaluate whether the answer is right or not, while it should be used to evaluate the "Good quality/Bad quality" which is tied to the answer being written well, etc, and not whether it's correct or not.
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I was talking specifically about the "new" review process, which forces me to pick one of the four options listed in the question text. So in your first two cases, which review-option would you suggest? – bitmask Aug 18 '12 at 14:23
@bitmask I just added it. :) – Alenanno Aug 18 '12 at 14:24
Ah, I see your point. Perhaps the wording "Looks Good if nothing is wrong with this answer" should be modified to reflect the meaning you propose. – bitmask Aug 18 '12 at 14:26
@bitmask I don't think I am proposing it. I think it already works that way, but I'd like some Team member or another mod to confirm it for you. :D – Alenanno Aug 18 '12 at 14:27
Don't forget that you can also edit low quality answers. Only delete if it's completely unsalvageable. – Anna Lear Aug 18 '12 at 16:26
But you can't separate " answer being written well, etc" and it being correct as written well implies makes sense and you can't vote from the review page – Mark Aug 19 '12 at 9:46
@Mark I don't understand what you said. But if I got what you mean, yes they are separable. An answer can be perfectly formatted, yet have wrong content. Or have correct content and yet be horribly written. They are completely separable and independent from each other. – Alenanno Aug 19 '12 at 10:32
@AnnaLear Thanks, included! :) – Alenanno Aug 19 '12 at 10:35
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To me, a "low-quality" post is one that is spam-ish in nature, or just a throw-away line like "heh, lolz". Ie, they generally don't address the actual question.
If an answer does address the question but is actually wrong, then either a downvote or (if the mistake is not too egregious) a comment stating what can make the answer better. I would not classify a wrong answer as a "low-quality" post given the above criteria.
So if an answer is wrong, I would choose "Looks Good" in the tool and then comment/downvote. A post should only be deleted if it can't be salvaged through editing.
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I agree with you. But would your say "Looks Good" or "Not Sure" in the review tool? I think both are wrong, in a way. The set of options implies that everything that wrong or slightly egregious answers should be deleted. – bitmask Aug 18 '12 at 14:20
@bitmask I'd probably say "looks good". – chrisaycock Aug 18 '12 at 14:21
For me, I consider answers that is written with so bad grammar/spelling that I cannot understand to rewrite as "low-quality". – nhahtdh Aug 18 '12 at 14:25
@nhahtdh Agreed. "Low-quality" means the post can't be salvaged. – chrisaycock Aug 18 '12 at 14:28
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51198 | I can't seem to log back in to stackoverflow.com now on my Mac (I'm still logged in on my PC). I'm getting the following error message (my OpenID provider is WordPress.com):
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Update: I try logging out of WordPress.com, then logging back in to SO. WordPress.com asks me to sign in as usual, so I do it and refresh that page. And I get this:
Unable to log in with your OpenID provider:
I reload SO's login page and try logging in with my WordPress.com OpenID again. However many times I try that now, I no longer get the first error, only the second.
From the looks of the errors, they seem to be the ones slipping up. Should I report this issue to them too, just in case? I've contacted them with a link to this question.
Just to add: I don't get automatically signed in to the main site even though I'm still logged into meta on my Mac, as well as a bunch of other Stack Exchange sites. I don't know if this has anything to do with the WordPress.com issue though.
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that is odd, I would definitely open a support ticket on their end. We haven't changed anything in a long, long time. – Jeff Atwood Jan 28 '11 at 12:13
@Jeff: yeah I just shot them a support mail at the same time you left the comment. I definitely think it's their fault more than ours. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jan 28 '11 at 12:14
status-notourfault? – Andrew Grimm Jan 29 '11 at 11:30
Strange; I first noticed a problem Thursday night, and it was the same on Friday but with new error messages. I searched for questions both times (with the specific errors) but couldn't see anything relevant, so I posted my own. Perhaps this question was not high enough on the list of results at that time. Can you add a WordPress tag to this question? – Mark C Jan 29 '11 at 16:21
@Mark C: I've done that now. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jan 29 '11 at 16:29
Thanks. Please let us know when they contact you. – Mark C Jan 29 '11 at 17:48
@Jeff @Bolt Ok, is their fault, but what can we do in the mean time to login? Should we create a new openId and associate it with the existing? – OscarRyz Jan 31 '11 at 14:46
@Oscar: That's what I'm thinking, but I'm lazy so I'll wait it out. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jan 31 '11 at 16:10
People, you can go to your profile, click in the "accounts" tab and click the link "add openid" in front of the "Registered User" title - and add a new OpenID. That is what I did to be able to comment here. Also, you all probably have more than one OpenID (or you do not have a Gmail account or Facebook profile? :) ) – brandizzi Jan 31 '11 at 16:42
Doing this causes some mess with related accounts, though. – brandizzi Jan 31 '11 at 17:04
@brandizzi We, certainly we can't do that, if we don't log in first right? – OscarRyz Jan 31 '11 at 20:02
Now that they've fixed it, and it indeed is status-notourfault, perhaps it is time to close this as too localized :) – BoltClock's a Unicorn Feb 1 '11 at 13:17
@Oscar well, you can do it if you have accounts in another Stack Excange site - although fortunately it is not possible :) – brandizzi Feb 1 '11 at 17:12
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I've contacted the WP support and they said:
We have corrected a glitch and the problem should no longer be occurring.
At least for me, it's working again.
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Indeed they have, I've just received a reply as well and it's working for me again. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Feb 1 '11 at 5:02
Same here, it was frustrating not being able to login here and add comments ;) – gerikson Feb 1 '11 at 11:36
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Definitely looks like a problem on the WordPress end. I repro the problem at http://test-id.org/OP/Sreg.aspx when entering my WordPress OpenID and get the same error. Their OP Endpoint is broken. The logs from test-id.org show they aren't handling OpenID associations nor are they responding correctly to the check_auth verification step.
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Nice work. I got a reply from them last night - they say they're on it. – BoltClock's a Unicorn Jan 29 '11 at 11:30
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Yeah, its WordPress - they've changed something. Leaving a comment on blogger.com doesn't work either.
Blogger.com reports:
Your OpenID credentials could not be verified.
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Yes i faced the same problem just now. But 2nd time it works. Don't know what is exactly happening :( – Paresh Mayani Nov 8 '11 at 19:58
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Hello X29, greetings and welcome to the Narutopedia! Thanks for your edit to the Zaku Abumi page.
Please leave a message on my talk page if I can help with anything! -- Omnibender (Talk) 01:39, 2 September 2011
Re: Qoutes Policy
A better idea is for you to start a discussion on the talk page. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 11:31, September 10, 2011 (UTC)
Re: "we just prefer manga quotes to it"
Maybe I shouldn't say "we" but it's just something that's done here, there's no real policy that says we should use it, it's more of a wiki style I think.--Cerez365 Hyūga Symbol 13:29, September 14, 2011 (UTC)
• Ok.
• Good luck with that.--Cerez365 Hyūga Symbol 14:13, September 14, 2011 (UTC)
Just so you know, this wiki is not a drag, you're just acting like a child and not following the policies.--White Flash (talk) 15:03, September 14, 2011 (UTC)
Your main argument for changing quotes is "most people watch the anime". Even if that's true, that's not really verifiable. Second, the text from the anime is exactly the same as the manga, save for filler arcs and very few instances that something is changed in the anime. The anime is Japanese as well. If what you meant is the English adaptation, that is also covered in policies, meaning we use translations from the original Japanese, not the Viz adaptation. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:25, September 15, 2011 (UTC)
You might want to take a look at the new Narutopedia:Signature policy.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol 18:17, November 7, 2011 (UTC)
I bet. Unlike my "may" there are plenty of "musts" on the sig policy page. Just giving you a heads-up.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol 18:51, November 7, 2011 (UTC)
Re:"Re: Is why it's there."
Because my knowledge of haematology is limited, I'm not the best person to ask that question. Omnibender and Shounensuki seem a lot more knowledgeable in this field.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 12:27, April 19, 2012 (UTC)
Which friend is that? --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:39, April 21, 2012 (UTC)
User:ShounenSuki?--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 14:13, April 21, 2012 (UTC)
Not too sure what questscan is (you might want to delete that from the google search I just did) but to search for users you should type in "User:personsname" Some people don't have userpages so you might want to search for them using "User talk". At least that's how I do it or use the broad search and select the box that says ○ User.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 14:23, April 21, 2012 (UTC)
Re: As a haematologist
Well, I'm not a haematologist, but I do know that there are several others blood antigen systems. They're simply not as widely known outside of specific biological sciences and medical circles as the ABO and Rhesus systems are. I believe a few more are also tested when checking compatibility between organ donor and recipient in organ transplants, but even with those, there are several more that aren't really used. ABO and Rhesus are the most known because they're the most relevant to blood transfusion and the like. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 23:25, April 19, 2012 (UTC)
There could be several different types of AB blood, it all depends on which other systems you use. Using the Rh system, there can be AB+ and AB-. Add other blood systems, you get many other different AB blood types. Omnibender - Talk - Contributions 00:01, April 21, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Not toe to toe?
No. Toe-to-toe means the opponents were evenly matched and neither gained the upper hand. Tobi never once put real pressure on Minato. It matters not that Minato was super smart, I don't see why you brought it up. The battle was quick AND easy. It took Minato one look at Tobi's method of attack to figure out how to decide the battle in all of 20 seconds. Skitts (talk) 15:18, April 27, 2012 (UTC)
Not stronger? Tobi's only method of attack was to ensnare his opponent and suck them away into his pocket dimension. Tobi is the one who lost because he was weaker. He's shown in no way that he's stronger than Minato. Tobi himself admitted that he has no real power at the 5 Kage Summit. Again, fighting 'toe-to-toe' means that neither opponent at any time had the upper hand, which wasn't true. All Minato did was check what Tobi's method of attack was, then the battle was over when he turned around to finish it. It wasn't even really a battle' just a skirmish. Skitts (talk) 19:09, April 27, 2012 (UTC)
Several problems with your logic and reasoning. First of all, saying that because.he's who he is, he HAS to have some other attack method is a folly and incorrect. That is the only way he has attacked in the series, even in situations where another method would have been needed, such as against Konan and Minato. The fact that he showed NO consistent usage of other techniques until he gained the Rinnegan. Tobi still said that he was quite powerless, not just a sheel of what Madara was, hence why he relies on Space-Time Migration in the 1st place. And Edo Madara is considerably more powerful than Madara ever was in life according to Kabuto, not to mention he now has Wood Release, so you can't compare that to the 'shell' statement that Tobi made. Minato DID gain the upper hand by 1) Severely wounding Tobi, 2) Placing a Hiraishin jutsu formula on his back and 3) Removing his control of Kurama. In fact, he so gained the upper hand that Tobi was forced to retreat. There was no part in which the two were 'toe-to-toe'. Skitts (talk) 17:30, April 28, 2012 (UTC)
Wait wait wait. Minato gaining the upper hand has nothhing to do with him winning? What kind of (il)logic is this? Tobi never ONCE fought toe-to-toe. This is the problem with your argument. You're saying "toe-to-toe", which means they fought evenly, but that NEVER HAPPENED. Minato checked out Tobi's plan of attack and ended the fight swiftly in the next bout. That's all that happened. No fighting evenly was present at all. Skitts (talk) 16:35, May 2, 2012 (UTC)
I'd assume you have an issue with the phrase "hold his own" yes? I'll change it to something more neutral like "go up against"? If we were to argue about whether or not they fought on equal grounds or not, I don't think there'd be an end to it because it's a more opinion based thing. Is that all right with you? --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 19:49, May 6, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry for the late response. I tend to exit out the notification that tells you you've a message, intending to check it out later; causes me to forget I had a message; go figure. Anyway, there were a plethora of fallacies and inaccuracies in your message, so I'll go in order:
• Half of the arsenal you posted of Tobi's were unusable for him back then, seeing as Clay Mines were given by Deidara, Tailed Beast Extraction works only on Jinchuriki and he didn't have a Rinnegan
• You did not just say that. o.o Just because Tobi has ONE Space-time technique doea in no way imply he has anything else up his sleeve (naturally). That is baseless and in fact basically shown untrue given that against Konan he had to resort to Izanagi and against Minato, the moment he no longer had Kurama, he fled.
Again, what you aren't getting (apparently) is that the saying you used conveys that both opponents were evenly matched and neither ever had the upper hand, which isn't true. For example, in Choji's Chunnin Exam matxh against Dosu, Dosu ended the match directly after avoiding Choji's meat tank attack. Did Choji fight toe to toe' with Dosu? Heck no. When Minato (as I constantly point out) hit Tobi with a 3-stage attack, greatly damaging him, marking him and removing Kurama from his control, he gained the upper hand, which Tobi never did in any way. The battle was very short as well, so there was no time for them to have fought evenly anyway. This seems to have stemmed from you using a saying that didn't apply in this case because it didn't happen as you say. Skitts (talk) 03:35, May 7, 2012 (UTC)
Re: One image to rule them all
Aye. Not my most favourite series but I do remember parts.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 19:05, May 28, 2012 (UTC)
Well, if you really think about it, it's not "is" on account Deidara is dead and gone. Tobi change his personality so it's more "was" than "is". -White Flash-(Talk)- 08:34, June 8, 2012 (UTC)
Then you should ask others about this, since "Was" to me is like saying before or unless Tobi still accompanies a dead Deidara. -White Flash-(Talk)- 09:07, June 8, 2012 (UTC)
There's no point telling vandals to stop spamming, that's what they do. All you should do is revert their edits and then list them for blocking here. Communicating with vandals is pointless. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:27, July 22, 2012 (UTC)
Your not really going to get admin attention by posting that kind of edit summary and many people will just assume you are talking to the vandals. They'll only do something about it if you actually go to their talk page and say "can you block X person please?" In this case, this is the best place to request people to be blocked. Also you should fix your signature as it has no link to your user talkpage, which I believe is a requirement. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:37, July 22, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Tone down?
This is inappropriate: But this site isn't for perverts such as you. Please avoid putting that in as it's a little demeaning and rude. Remember, there are young children who come here that don't need to read such words. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:12, July 26, 2012 (UTC)
Not saying it's a cuss word, just saying that it would be advised to avoid using those kind of words. I used to use a lot of heavy curse words here but now I don't. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:23, July 26, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Vandal Sweep
What's that friend? --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 18:15, July 27, 2012 (UTC)
Because of the kind of editing I do here, I edit a great deal. If I were to use the email function I'd be barraged with an endless stream of emails which would kill my phone battery undoubtedly. So when I am here all I do is go through the edits either until I reach my last one or to the most recent one. If I don't do that, I trust the other editors to catch the vandalism.
Since we're talking, I'd like to point out that out Signature policy now dictates that you must have a link back to your talk page. You should see my face right now, it looks like this --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 18:25, July 27, 2012 (UTC)
Its userpage, not talkpage. --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 03:32, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
No, you haven't. The cumplosory thing in your signature is User:X29 and User talk:X29 is optional. --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 04:33, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
You neednot have a link back to your talkpage. But you must have a link to your userpage in your sig. --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 04:57, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
To intervene here, but he doesn't need a link back to his userpage since it's deleted, his sig can have a link back to his talkpage, also X29 I notice you're having troubles with your sig, so put this —[[User_talk:X29|X29]] in your preference.. -White Flash-(Talk)- 06:16, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
I think its alright not to have a link to your userpage. But you can use —[[User:X29|X29]] ([[User_talk:X29|Talk]]) which will give —X29 (Talk) --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 12:44, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Thank you Salil for repeating what I said...and X29 very much dear :) -White Flash-(Talk)- 16:19, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Fine with me ;) --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 16:28, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
There. I hope you can choke on it.
X29 that was totally uncalled for. Threatening people like that is not doing you any favours. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:31, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Sorry X29 but blow-up dolls do not count there we're even. -White Flash-(Talk)- 16:45, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Rules are there for a reason. If you think all these policies are a drag, why are you still here ? --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 18:41, July 31, 2012 (UTC)
Your userpage
According to Userpage policy, you may not create a userpage to indicate it's "Under Construction". And why do you think the policies are "a drag" ? They are there for a reason :/ --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 18:56, July 27, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Tsunade's pic
When editing the page, click the photo thing you see on the right → and just follow the stuff. Make sure it's in the section you want to add it and such. If anything i'll fix it for you.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 21:48, July 30, 2012 (UTC)
You can go ahead at any time and add the image to her article. I haven't really been giving this much thought.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 01:29, November 30, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Admin, Shmadmin
There will be no problem because there is none. Stop looking for problems that don't exist. If an issue arises, it will be dealt with. A word of advice: never undo an edit made by an admin as their decisions are absolute. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 21:28, August 1, 2012 (UTC)
Benihisago image
You want the suction to be represented? Because that's what I mean is unnecessary. Also, why'd you add a description to the image in the infobox o.O? --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:33, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
Meh. It's been sorted now.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:44, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
ms theory
Itachi crow's eye turned to 3 tomoe on the cooldown, indicating that not only the power can't be used again but also it won't be possible to change the tomoe to MS one.--Elveonora (talk) 18:23, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
I thought Itachi made it clear that the Mangekyou won't activate for a decade, dunno what translation have you read.--Elveonora (talk) 18:51, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
2 eyes, 2 possible targets at once :) I'm sure this was used on Yagura and Kurama, and there's possibly some 3rd victim. If he could use it now (strong genjutsu) he would have done such long ago. Like on Naruto or B, and if you say "it might not work" then at least on Kakashi or Guy. So if Tobi had such strong genjutsu to control a perfect host and a tailed beast, but has not been seen using such since then, that likely means he can't. And the only genjutsu technique with a time limit we know of is Shisui's. It could explain why he wanted the remaining eye that Danzo had in his possession. A decade is a long time, not to mention I have some other theory as well. --Elveonora (talk) 19:36, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
Tobi controlled Yagura about 10 years before part I. and I don't believe Yagura was a Kage for long, due to his youthful appearance and I think Gaara is the youngest Kage in history, unless I'm wrong. Let's say that Tobi had control over Yagura for 2 years, making it appear that he has defected into Kiri right after he had failed the attack on Konoha, making both his eyes on more or less the same cooldown. With one being sacrificed for Izanagi, the remaining Sharingan should activate again soon. So if this is correct, you can buy me an ice cream "_"
I don't really have any other explanations for:
• lack of wood release
• mangekyou-like powers but no mangekyou seen
• strong genjutsu used rarely but not recently
• other shit
Unless you have some other theory. And again, this ain't about his identity, because I'm pretty sure that Tobi is Izuna (my bet on 101%) :)--Elveonora (talk) 20:53, August 5, 2012 (UTC)
fuck language, thanks for taking a time to read and discuss though :) also, ever heard of transplants?--Elveonora (talk) 07:22, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Databook and Madara/Tobi in manga stated that Izuna has died, not that he is dead :) Because we know, it's not like everyone stays dead in the manga.--Elveonora (talk) 17:02, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
That doesn't in any way signify Izuna is dead. There were talking about what they have inherited from a dead person and stuff, but we will see. I don't see any other candidate than him. If the interview is real, then we should find out "soon" Who's your number #1 bet? But yeah, uhm.. this didn't start as a Tobi identity theory lol--Elveonora (talk) 17:52, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
So the Ten-Tails is trying to revive itself? O_O interesting. I will stop reading and leave the community if it's not Izuna "_" The sad thing is, the story is getting kinda simplistic now... all people care about is Tobi/Madara lol. I kinda miss Part I. and first half of Part II.--Elveonora (talk) 18:13, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
U serial? O_o to think that the God/demon of the whole naruto universe was a goof bag "_" But a solid theory indeed, that of mine is better though. Wait... so if Tobi is the Ten-Tails and the Moon Eye plan was originally Madara's, then would that mean that Edo Madara wants to become Tobi's jinchuriky? lol I don't think so, but a nice one dude.--Elveonora (talk) 18:47, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Lord Admin
Lol. You're lucky I think stuff like this is kewl ._." Someone called Tranclan would be Hashirama, he created the wiki. Dan would be like Tobirama, who gave it infrastructure and stuff.
As for Admins, you could just ask them, but, TheUltimate3 would be the First, then Jacce, Shounensuki, Snapper2, SimAnt and finally Omnibender. Just so you get it right v_v--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:31, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
That's right. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 16:34, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Hey you can see the order in User Rights Log. --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 16:37, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Maybe comparing the first one to Hashirama was bad. But this is what I meant.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 19:54, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
First?--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 19:56, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Here. --UltimateSupreme2212-3.png(Talk to me) 00:52, August 7, 2012 (UTC)
But Dan's higher than an Admin though, so he'd be a Kage. Charitwo(sp?) and the others that have been given rights is just part of the cross-wiki task force, they don't have anything to do with the running of the wiki. Snaps is here, when he wants to be, even if he doesn't log in. Therefore the order I gave are the most appropriate titles--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 10:53, August 7, 2012 (UTC)
Old discussion, but here's an interesting tidbit. At one point we did map groups to ranks:
• Bureaucrat -> Kage
• Sysop -> Jonin
• Rollback -> Jokubetsu Jonin
• Autoconfirmed -> Chunin
• User -> Genin
• Anon -> Academy student
Also, TranClan made a total of 3 edits to the wiki (well 4 if you count a single deleted edit, then again one of those edits was to my talkpage)... ;) wouldn't he be more like Madara? ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local TalkAnimanga Talk) 14:59, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
I don't really know if creator, founder, or sage really applies... He made a request, staff setup the wiki, then he made 4 edits and disappeared. And none of those were particularly special edits at all. He didn't even create a single article. Rather than "the" sage that created the universe that's more like the sage that proclaimed "I shall create life", another sage jumped in and actually created life, then the first sage said thanks and was absorbed into the ether. Having one Kage is fine if you consider the wiki like a village. There's only one Kage till they retire... ;) and I'm still alive. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local TalkAnimanga Talk) 16:29, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
Not really. Back then all it took to "create" a wiki was to fill out a page on the wiki that once existed at After doing that staff would push a few buttons and a brand new empty wiki would be created. It's something trivial to do, and even more trivial now. TranClan filled out that page. Then created nothing on the wiki. Basically the wiki died right after it was founded. Then since the wiki already existed (even though it was pretty much entirely empty) instead of creating a new one I adopted it, becoming the wiki's founder/re-founder. And then I laid out the foundation for the wiki. Nothing that TranClan did really required him. The wiki would easily still exist as-is even if TranClan never showed up on Wikia. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local TalkAnimanga Talk) 20:58, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
That's a pretty dim view of what it actually takes to found a wiki. Founding a involves creating the initial content, attracting the first editors, and editing and helping the wiki until it reaches that critical mass where the community becomes self-sustaining. Quite frankly if you try to strip away everything involved in founding a wiki down to what TranClan did... then you've got enough ratonale to call the staff members the "founders" of the wiki. Since filling out a form anyone could fill out and accepting that form are the same level of trivial. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local TalkAnimanga Talk) 16:44, November 4, 2012 (UTC)
Re: without fighting Shino grumblegrumblegrumble
Aye, I did. I all but forgot he was reincarnated. What a waste since I really wanted to know more about him etc, Fū too.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 20:28, August 6, 2012 (UTC)
Ty for fix.--Aeonophic (talk) 23:16, August 26, 2012 (UTC)Aeonophic
Re: A very unneccessary page
If you feel that its unnecessary, just place {{delete|reason=unnecessary}} on the top of the page. UltimateSupreme2212-3.pngUltimateSupreme2212-3talk.png 05:08, August 27, 2012 (UTC)
Corpse Soil
I'm too busy hunting images to try and verify it right now, so I'm going to advocate something we normally don't do around here. In place of cold hard facts, let's just ask, how is it not? You murder a bunch of people then use Earth Release to reanimate their corpses as zombie soldiers. Even Impure World Reincarnation at least restores he mind of the dead and that's also forbidden, this may as well be mutilating the bodies. There is virtually no way in any rational way that this thing could of avoided being labeled a forbidden technique. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 08:12, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Truly, it is a great thing to know that logic has no place here. But if it'll make you happy, I've started searching for the statement of its status now. I'll get back to you with the results. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 10:22, November 1, 2012 (UTC)
Rationale and License Metadata
{{Fair use}} and {{Fair use rationale}} templates are required to exist on ANY images if they are to be used in articles. Do not add images that do not have both these templates on them as they are illegal without the fair use data. In regards to the edit summary on the page you keep adding an illegal image to, the warning would've been a policy reminder. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 13:30, November 3, 2012 (UTC)
Fuinjutsu List
Excuse me X29, but the reason I put up the 2nd Fuinjutsu list is that the current one is broken and I figured people would like to get to a list quickly until the original is fixed.
--YoukoTaichou (talk) 22:12, November 5, 2012 (UTC)
Meh, a lot of people seem to not have noticed. You'd think they'd realize that a second list was added for a reason. And not just to be an ass or something. The same thing's going on with all of the 'List of' areas. Hope they get that fixed soon.
--YoukoTaichou (talk) 02:39, November 6, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Continuing Tsunade's pic
It's not as pretty as the game image but yes, it should do.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 19:15, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
I don't know why, but I like number three a lot (must be the hands). I'm still waiting to see what people say about the forum post though, before the initiative starts.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 20:46, November 7, 2012 (UTC)
Okay then, leave it to me I guess.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 15:36, December 2, 2012 (UTC)
Um..... I don't know how to title it, since he made it, not me, X29
ya need to stop cutting out my contributions, they're legitimate and fairly accurate, i make them as I watch/rewatch and read the series so I know they're solid. (talk) 08:38, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
First of all, make a section for this message 'fore you send it. Second of all, your edits are very wrong. --X29 08:42, November 9, 2012 (UTC)
Recent edits
Be my guest, I tend not to arbitrarily make stuff up and add it to articles. As for Kakashi's changes, check his talk page, the reason is there.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:56, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
In fact, just to make it easier for you here is what his article says per-Gottheim's translations-
Main text
Ibiki plays an important part in the extracting of information, as he interrogates suspects and prisoners of war. From the psychological pressure of threats to the physical pain of torture, he is adept in a large array of methods. Methods he knows how to apply judiciously. He's a man whose intellectual honesty one would never guess behind his heavily scarred appearance.
-I'll use my own methods and make you squeal*!
-Konoha's enforcer. He knows hardship better than most!
Picture comment
-He's the best in Konoha, and a great many shinobi rely on his experience and technique, starting with Jiraiya.
Ninja Registration Number: 010913
Date of birth: Mar 20 (31 y-o; Pisces)
Height: 193.5 cm Height: 88 kg Blood type A
Personality: persevering, sadistic
Favorite word: "Truth". (talk) 17:03, November 10, 2012 (UTC) yomiko-chan
...... Mate, Cerez here sent me there already. --X29 17:06, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Kakashi Hatake#Possible wrong sentence.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 17:16, November 10, 2012 (UTC)
Just so you know, it was Forum:Chapter 599- Obito and Tobi.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 17:34 UTC, Monday, 12 November 2012
Okay seriously, do you still believe girls have koodies or what? There was no problem with how it's written, but somehow in your little head you think it's "perverted". It's not. We're supposed to have a full description of their appearances, you need have a solid grasp on that. Now, I'm going to restore what you removed in the first place. If you still have a problem with how it's written. Oh well. If your going to start a revert war again, then by all means go right head. Be aware, you remove this and this for an invalid reason, so quite frankly you were the one who started the revert war. I'll be more than willing to contact the admins and have their business here all because you have the mind of a nine year old.--White Flash (Contact) 04:06, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Edits on Shizuka and Hotaru
I don't really have an issue with people mentioning large-busted characters. I do have an issue with speaking about a characters "slender yet curvaceous frames" which are hardly ever noticeable because they aren't real people and sounds really perversed.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 15:26, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
You really need to learn about compromise.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:01, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:35, November 12, 2012 (UTC)
Fine, but if the author creates it in Japanese (I'm assuming), then wouldn't there be a kind of official portal or something where they get posted? I mean, where do these manga-sites get their copies? — Alchez (talk) 16:58, November 14, 2012 (UTC)
Re: Re: You
Yeah, bout the whole Shock Dragoon thing. What I said here had nothing to do with you specifically. It was just a title I chose due to what he said on my talk page here -:
I honestly don't care to be praised for this stuff, I want you all to get a grip and get over it. --Hawkeye2701 (talk) 08:45, November 20, 2012 (UTC)
Lightning Transmission
I'm going to ask you to stop removing information from the article. Your logic is flawed.
• He performed the technique with a shadow clone ergo it requires the use of a shadow clone. We record techniques based on their use not based off "logic"
• You keep saying he could perform it with another person. Which other person knows the Lightning Cutter? Guy? maybe Sakura? Who else is there in the entire Naruto-verse that he can perform this technique with? If and when someone else does use Lightning Cutter and uses this technique with him, or Kakashi uses it with both hands the shadow clone would be removed and Collaboration Technique added to the article.
The fact of the matter is Kakashi created the Lightning Transmission using a shadow clone to create the chain, nothing else so it cannot be removed based on your logical thinking.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:07, November 22, 2012 (UTC)
Refer to the first thing I said. This is not a place for your speculation. We record information as it is given to us in the manga, and it's only if and when something happens later to change that then the information is altered.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:14, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
You really think you're the only one to think that this technique could be performed by Kakashi and someone else who knows how to use Lightning Cutter? Other people here just know that that's not how information is supposed to be represented: as it is given in the series. If and when someone else does use this technique with Kakashi, things will be changed accordingly, not before. You're the one that needs to get it through your skull friend, you haven't reach Enlightenment just yet.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:32, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
...I'm not sure how I'm supposed to respond to that.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 01:29, November 30, 2012 (UTC)
I already answered you regarding this, and I'm not going to continue this discussion and start debating something as ridiculous as whether or not a shadow clone is another, or the same person.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 15:36, December 2, 2012 (UTC)
I wasn't ignoring you, I answered you twice but apparently I was not making myself clear, and I didn't want to sound harsh or anything. Your reasoning is rubbish: Kakashi used a clone, so the article will say clone not "another person" because a clone and the original are the same person. Clones cannot be considered entirely different entities when a simple seal can dispel them. I don't think I can help you further, so take it to the article's talkpage so others can weigh in.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 15:58, December 6, 2012 (UTC)
Would you please stop removing stuff like "curvaceous frame" and "sizeable bust" from multiple articles referencing any woman in Naruto ? It's getting very annoying with your anti-pervertism edits around the wiki. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 10:59, November 25, 2012 (UTC)
Anger mangnement
This about the messages you have left. While I admire your loyalty to your friend Ceraz365 you are not helping him or yourself by repeating my mistake. He deleted a five paragraph long message on a talkpage on the mistaken belief it was vandalism. I made a worst mistake by swearing at him with an email, I had been up for a day and half and dealt with alot cybervandalism with my postings in the past. I basicly blew up with my anger. I should wait until I calm down or just gone to Admims. He promptly apologize and even gave me so good advice on my postings. I felt were embarass and guiltly for my actions wrote a post of an apology and try to withdraw the retort (twice because the stupid shutdown maintiance cycle indeverently deleted the first post). We were both wrong, more me than him. I am trying settle this politely, Truce OK. --BrennanMulcahey (talk) 10:04, November 27, 2012 (UTC)User BrennanMulcahey
Itachi's Crow Article
The crow did not use the technique. Itachi rigged the eye to use the technique when it detected his eye. The crow served as nothing more than a host. Please go and reread the chapter, and the relevant talk pages.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:18, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
"accidently resulting in deleting the "Abilities" section somehow". yeah sure, I bet it was absolutely unforeseeable, the "view changes here" page after undoing something is also overrated in my eyes. And of course it's my fault that you could not look down there for 2 seconds. (talk) 11:25, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
Itachi had the crow appear, that does not mean the crow used the technique. Like I said before it was nothing more than a host.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:27, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
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I don't have to always check my edit or even check at all when I expect it to work the way I want it to. And you can say that I'm lying all you want. It's the truth. That's all I'm gonna say. --X29 11:29, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
that's all you gonna say? nice, first insulting somebody and then ignoring his responses becuase it's too much of a hassle. grow up dude. (talk) 11:31, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
The crows appearance was based on the condition, that it "saw" or "sensed" (that part is unclear) Itahci's Sharingan. It was simply said that the crow emerged as a reaction to Itachi's eyes. Still does not mean the crow came out and used the technique. Hence it cannot be its ability.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 11:34, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
And where did the command "protect Konoha" come from, or have you forgotten about that? --Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 12:07, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
That is going beyond the scope of anything we know. Crows have not shown that much sign of intelligence to be able to do anything like that. Once again, you're also going outside the scope of what we were told and making your own assumptions.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 18:03, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
Please go and read chapter 550, page 10.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 18:31, January 13, 2013 (UTC)
so why exactly became all what's written here unimportant all of the sudden again? (talk) 17:21, January 31, 2013 (UTC)
eeehm, did you edited the articel and automatically removed it afterwards? I'm confused dude. (talk) 17:28, January 31, 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I did. I was having a blonde moment...... Sorry 'bout that....... --X29 01:50, February 1, 2013 (UTC)
Edits of late
I don't know what's up with you but you're getting really sloppy with your edits
1. Stop editing just to talk to people, talkpages were made for that
2. Stop doing stuff for unnecessary reasons (though you may just not know that you're wrong which seems to be happening a lot)
3. The discussion on Zabuza Momochi's talkpage that you're responding to is
• Outdated and died in 2010
• Has since been archived so people stop responding to it
Those are both grounds to remove your two years later response.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:08, January 20, 2013 (UTC)
I'm going to ask that you stop editing Zabuza's archive now and use some common sense. Someone edited the article today I proceeded to revert it because of this same reason (responding to year-old discussions). Then to avoid this situation, I archived the page. You getting an email and blindly following it to respond to something is ridiculously dimwitted. Check the timestamps on the discussion; the wikia provides tools- learn to use them please.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:19, January 20, 2013 (UTC)
You seriously have to stop reverting or removing words in edits that describe a woman's posture. It's seriously getting on everyone's nerves and it will lead to a block. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:19, January 22, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Yoroi Akadō
Apparently you're not getting it. Nothing in the anime points clearly towards Yoroi dying. Yes he got his chakra sapped and sank into the ocean but that does not mean he is dead. Other characters have come back from far worst: Obito is a prime example of that. According to policy, what you're entering is speculation which is not allowed. You can feel free to cite some of those characters you claim to presume the same thing is said about and either one of two things will happen: I'll explain to you why that is there or else petition to have it removed because it's there in error. Yoroi and Misumi's cases are very unique with the ultimately conflicting information from the series, there's no need for us to go on and say "presumably he was killed".--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:46, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
You're still assuming. Obito is no different because how he escaped is not something we knew until after the fact. For all you know there was a team of shinobi deployed down there to retrieve him, he used a technique to escape, he slipped through the water and was found by Izuna then raised the same way Obito was. All of these are ways (no matter how ridiculous) that they could rewrite him and Misumi into the series if they felt a mind to, that's why I said there's absolutely no need for us to say that he died presumably. People can assume that on their own.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 13:59, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
I've tried, honestly I have, so all I can say at this point is cool story bro.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:26, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
Come on guys, some respect for each other, kitty ain't amused ._. --Elveonora (talk) 16:42, January 26, 2013 (UTC)
Why did you delete my Trivia entry for Suigetsu? Miraibuu (talk) 04:05, February 1, 2013 (UTC)
Orochimaru specifically states this that You have made one mistake, you are no longer Hebi. Pretty obvious. Read the manga.. Miraibuu (talk) 04:11, February 1, 2013 (UTC)
[No links to scanalation sites allowed] he says you are no longer my snakes, when suigetsu refers to the golden opportunity that they have to destroy konoha.... What are you talking about? Orochimaru clearly says that Miraibuu (talk) 04:18, February 1, 2013 (UTC)
Sexy Jutsu Edit Revert?
Dude, my edit on the sexy jutsu page had better grammar. Why did you revert it? --TeaBikini (talk) 07:20, February 5, 2013 (UTC)
Well, yes! They're pretty much the same words; I just switched the order around so that the sentence is more comprehensible. The original version was something like "naked with a seductive posture, or in a bikini", and my version is essentially "naked or in a bikini with a seductive posture", implying that the bikini version of the jutsu still has the same effect, and making the sentence easier to read. So yes, better grammar. --TeaBikini (talk) 05:20, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
Alright, then leave the basic stuff in. Don't completely revert the edit. Even with the sexy stuff, it's still better grammar, and it IS the sexy jutsu, but whatever. The grammar fix is what's important. --TeaBikini (talk) 23:23, February 6, 2013 (UTC)
...I just explained how it could be better... --TeaBikini (talk) 09:11, February 10, 2013 (UTC)
So I improved the grammar and you reverted it because it was only slightly worse before? It's seriously not that big of a change. I'll make it what it should be and keep it to a minimum (which according to you shouldn't include sexy descriptions, which I still don't understand). --TeaBikini (talk) 06:05, February 11, 2013 (UTC)
what wrong with the part i added in missing nin.Am3rica (talk) 19:30, February 12, 2013 (UTC)
X29, Mayhaps you do not know what the revert function is for but if I see you abusing it again to revert editions that aren't vandalism, I won't hesitate to request that your rollback rights be revoked. To make matters worse you revert the revision and then have to go in and make the same changes again, take a second to contemplate if that makes any sense. I rarely say this, but your edits are becoming more of a nuisance than the good they do. Many thanks for your corporation.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 15:51, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
Learn to use the rollback function and stop reverting good edits to articles. For example: here, here, and here.I hope this time was clear enough for you.--Cerez365Hyūga Symbol(talk) 16:35, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
Honestly, you should just be permablocked. You are doing nothing contributive here other than irritating editors by abusing your rollback status. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 16:42, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
As explained by Cerez above, the rollback button is not there as a quick way of reverting some random edit. It is there for quick reverting of vandalistic edits. If you don't understand the button, don't use it. Honestly, I have no idea why you were even given the rollback status anyway. Look through my edits, as well as Cerez's, for examples of what it is to be used for. It doesn't really matter anyway. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | Channel 16:49, February 15, 2013 (UTC)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51269 | Today, the taste of America includes everything from hot dogs and Maine lobster to Hawaiian tuna and soft-shell crab. It has the tang and Chimayo chilies. Illustration by Joël Penkman
IN 1878, that most American of writers, Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, undertook a journey through parts of Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy. Mr. Twain was serious about the pleasures of gastronomy, but judging from his account of the trip, published as "A Tramp Abroad," he was not impressed by what the European larder had to offer. "A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery," he proposed, "would not starve to death suddenly in Europe; but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die."
'The Taste of America' F. Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal
What Mr. Twain pined for was, well, the taste of America. Today, that tastes like hot dogs, Cincinnati chili and grass-fed beef. Like Maine lobster, Hawaiian tuna and soft-shell crab. It has the tang of Ruby Red grapefruit, Chimayo chilies and pickled okra; the lure of Hershey's bars, New York cheesecake and Key lime pie; the reassuring starch of granola, grits and sourdough bread.
These are a few of the entries in "The Taste of America," a catalog of our culinary treasures that I recently finished assembling. In it are emblematic American foodstuffs, but also products that are hardly ours exclusively but that we grow or make very well here. I've identified local bakery specialties, but also commercial snack foods. If there are good and easily obtainable foods raised in an organic and sustainable way by small producers, I've often favored those, but I'm not an organic-and-artisanal snob. If I were, and let my feelings guide my choices, I'd be presenting a skewed picture of the way we really eat.
I was frankly surprised, pleasantly, by how many of the producers I identify are family operations, going back generations. Of course, there are cases of companies that started small and are now owned by multinational concerns. This isn't necessarily a bad thing: Laura Chenel's goat cheese is still superb, though she sold her operation to a big French dairy producer; Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing, owned by a branch of the Clorox Company, contains ingredients the man who invented it wouldn't recognize but has become an American classic anyway.
Called out below are a few items that you might find at any July Fourth barbecue and that are exceptional nevertheless, thanks to the care with which they are made and the culinary heritage they embody—as deliciously as any foods I know.
Mr. Andrews is the author of seven books on food, including the forthcoming "The Taste of America" (Phaidon), from which this was adapted.
Hot Dogs
A good hot dog pops a little when you bite into it, has recognizable pork flavor, is properly seasoned with salt and pepper (with a hint of garlic), contains no fillers and is juicy enough that a little of its flavor soaks into the bun. This is a pretty good description of the dogs made by Liehs & Steigerwald in Syracuse, N.Y. An old-style meat shop specializing in sausages of many kinds, it was opened in 1936 by German immigrants Curt Liehs and Ludwig Steigerwald. Today it is owned by Jeffrey Steigerwald, Ludwig's grandnephew, in partnership with Chuck Madonna, who started working at the shop when he was 15. They promise to preserve the shop's food traditions while modernizing the business, and so far, judging from their hot dogs, they're doing a good job. $7 per pound,
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Pinquito Beans
Pinquitos are small pink beans with a tender skin but a rich, slightly firm texture even when completely cooked; they have a faintly herbaceous flavor with an earthy overlay, like a more refined version of pinto beans. They don't seem to grow anywhere other than around the Santa Maria Valley on California's Central Coast. Pinquitos are delicious and unusual beans, and make a good side dish even if you're not grilling. They're available by mail from several sources, but the one with the best pedigree is Susie Q's Brand, based, of course, in Santa Maria. $7 per 19-ounce bag,
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Barbecue Sauce
The commercial barbecue sauce I like the best right now is Pine Ridge Barbecue and Dipping Sauce, made by Herbadashery—a "retirement project" started in 1991 by Barb and Eli Dicklich in Casper, Wyo. The story is that a woman named Melissa Armstrong, living on the 28,500-acre Pine Ridge Ranch in Kaycee, about 60 miles north of Casper, ran out of the brand-name barbecue sauce her family liked when she was preparing dinner one evening, so she improvised her own—which they liked even better. In 2006, she sold the recipe and name to the Dickliches, and I'm happy to say that it is now available outside the immediate area. It's not a goopy sauce. It flows nicely, isn't overly sweet, has a nice chili bite and is lively enough to perk up anything it touches. $7 per 18-ounce bottle,
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Bread and Butter Pickles
Bread and butter pickles are similar to dill pickles, but sweeter in flavor. They are also usually sliced before pickling, which can lend them a more intense flavor. These are the ones that usually get put inside sandwiches or chopped up in potato salad, tuna salad and similar deli-case specialties. All the big national pickle-makers have a version, but the best are quite possibly those labeled as Hunn's Private Stock Bread & Butter Chips, produced in Garland, Texas. In addition to their sweetness, and to the crisp texture and vinegary tang you'd expect, Hunn's "chips" have an attractive aromatic flavor—garlic, cloves, mustard seed—that brightens sandwiches, and anything else to which they're added, superbly. $30 for six 32-ounce jars,
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Fried Pork Rinds
Though Bill Clinton is from Arkansas, it has been rumored that his favorite pork cracklings come from Clarksdale, Miss., where the Wong family produces some of the best. Kim Wong came to America from China's Guangdong Province in 1949, and in the 1960s moved to Clarksdale, where he and his family opened a restaurant and grocery store. Though he served a few Chinese-style dishes, the cooking was mostly Southern, and Wong's wife would render her own lard to make her famous biscuits, throwing away the bits of fried pork that remained. Then Wong noticed that stores in the area sometimes stocked fried pork rinds and asked his wife to start saving hers. Crisp, faintly spicy, nicely salted and thoroughly addictive, Kim's Pork Cracklings have become a Southern classic. $36 per case of 36 packets, Kim's Processing Plant, Inc., 662-627-2389 |
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• Run UV-vis on salt-exchanged PVOH(22K) + GA + PP films.
UV-Vis of Salt-Exchanged PVOH Films
• Protocol
1. Place film in 20 mL 10 mM Fe2(SO4)3.
2. Time how long it takes for the film to change color from green to pink.
3. Remove film from salt solution, pat dry with KimWipes, and cut with a 3.5 mm film cutter.
4. Measure the thickness of the film with calipers, then place it in a quartz cuvette and take a spectrum from 200 nm to 800 nm.
5. Place the film back in its H2SO4 solution.
6. Discard the salt solution into a waste container.
7. Repeat the above steps in 20 mL solutions of Al2(SO4)3 and Na2SO4.
• The following films were analyzed with this protocol:
• PVOH(22K) 1.0067 g + 1 mL GA + 1 mL PP + HCl
• PVOH(22K) 1.0073 g + 1 mL GA + 1 mL PP
• PVOH(22K) 1.05225 g + 0.5 mL GA + 1 mL PP
• Note that all films were stored in 2 wt% H2SO4 solution prior to being soaked in the salt solutions.
• Immediately after being placed in the three salt solutions, the PVOH(22K) 1.05225 g + 0.5 mL GA + 1 mL PP films became colorless.
Film [ ] Salt Solution [ ] Film Thickness [mm] Color [ ]
PVOH(22K) 1.0073g, 1mLGA, 1mLPPAl2(SO4)30.6Green
PVOH(22K) 1.0073g, 1mLGA, 1mLPPNa2SO40.5Pink
PVOH(22K) 1.0073g, 1mLGA, 1mLPPFe2(SO4)30.6Pink
PVOH(22K) 1.05225g, 0.5mLGA, 1mLPPAl2(SO4)30.6Transparent
PVOH(22K) 1.05225g, 0.5mLGA, 1mLPPNa2SO40.1Transparent
PVOH(22K) 1.05225g, 0.5mLGA, 1mLPPFe2(SO4)30.4Transparent
PVOH(22K) 1.0067g, 1mLGA, 1mLPP, HClAl2(SO4)30.9Green
PVOH(22K) 1.0067g, 1mLGA, 1mLPP, HClNa2SO41Pink
PVOH(22K) 1.0067g, 1mLGA, 1mLPP, HClFe2(SO4)30.9Pink
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I shot some images for use in a blog post. With the closeups, I ran into the problem of too low depth of field. Because I only need them for the web, I think that the easiest way to solve it would be to take them from farther apart and then crop them instead of downscaling. Now I need some guideline about how far away I should stand.
Let's say that I took a picture at X cm distance between subject and sensor, and the subject fills the 4000 px wide picture. If I want the same object to be at least 640 px wide, what is the farthest distance I can have between subject and sensor?
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This doesn't directly answer your question, but I think the easiest way to solve the problem would be to select a narrower aperture, and gain a greater depth of field. You can use a tripod or a higher ISO if camera movement becomes a problem. – dpollitt May 23 '12 at 16:21
@dpollitt no, it was a very close shot, even the narrowest aperture wasn't enough. Also, my DX sensor hits diffraction limit at f/16, if I remember correctly. – rumtscho May 23 '12 at 16:30
Do you have just decent point and shoot also? – rfusca May 23 '12 at 18:03
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Since what you're after is depth of field, I'd use one of the many depth of field calculators to compute how far away you need to be to get the depth of field you need/want, and shoot from there.
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No, I would rather accept a slightly small depth of field in this case than a motif I have to upscale (if the required distance for a given depth of field turns out to be too far for a 640 px motif). – rumtscho May 24 '12 at 8:16
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Why work so hard? I think you are making this much harder than it has to be.
Getting something to be exactly 640 pixels in the image will be difficult, require careful measurements and accurate calculations and is very error prone (and for something really close the internal construction of the lens makes a huge difference and this will be impossible to calculate)
But Getting something in the ballpark with a nice safety margin and than downscaling the rest of the way is ridiculously easy.
just move back until the subject covers approximately 1/3 of the frame than crop and after that downscale the rest of the way.
Why 1/3? You want 640px out of 4000, that is approx 1/6, I want to make it a little bigger to be on the safe side and 1/3 is really easy to judge by eye compered to 1/5 or 1/4.
At that distance hopefully you already solved the DOF problem - and even if the image is still a little bit blurry downscaling will make it less blurry.
By the way, the fact that downscaling reduces blurriness also let you use a smaller aperture, the blur caused by diffraction will be reduced.
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I know I can estimate it, I wanted to know how the calculations are done. – rumtscho May 24 '12 at 8:14
@rumtscho - If I remember my geometry correctly, in theory, you take the distance and multiply if by 4000/640 -- but back here in the real world where focal length changes a bit with focus this will only give you a rough estimate, unless it's a macro shot (I believe you said it is) in macro mode lenses act strangely and you can't make this calculation at all without taking the lens internal construction into account – Nir May 24 '12 at 10:57
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I'm wondering if there are heuristic ways to derive how the peak density and temperature of nuclear explosions scale with the amount of fissile/fusible material.
Does it matter what the explosion energy is made of? what if the source of the energy is matter antimatter annihilation? how would that scale? any intuitive way to derive those as well?
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Certainly for nuclear explosives the design of the device matters--there are bomb designs that get larger (and generally cleaner) or smaller (and generally dirtier) explosions from similar amounts of fissile material. There are even rumors that the nuclear powers were investigating "dial-a-yield" devices where the explosive power could be set (over some range) in the field. – dmckee Sep 5 '12 at 14:58
@dmckee, interesting. So maybe what is relevant for this question would be a maximum achievable bound on the yield? – lurscher Sep 5 '12 at 16:41
The existence of dial-a-yield technology was declassified (item 8.c) in the 90s, but only some UK weapons were confirmed to have selectable yield. – mmc Sep 6 '12 at 1:10
@mmc What a fascinating document. All the instances of "the mere fact" are interesting as are the degree to which many of these facts were widely known long before that time. On the other had I recall watching a episode of Mutual of Omaha'a Wild Kingdom on finding whales at sea one evening after which my father (a retired naval officer) said something like "I think they just covered an entire classified book called 'How to find a submarine'". – dmckee Sep 6 '12 at 21:29
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I'm working on a small side project using CGI and Python (scalability is not an issue and it needs to be a VERY simple system.)
I was thinking of implementing authentication using cookies, and was wondering if there were any established best practices.
When the user successfully authenticates, I want to use cookies to figure out who is logged on. What, according to the best practices, should be stored in such a cookie?
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Best case: A single ID that relates to all the other information you need, which in turn is stored in a database.
There are times when it makes sense to put some other information in there, but they are rare. You always need to ask yourself why, at least five times.
SSL will protect your users from session hijacking but, even then, never store unencrypted sensitive information in a cookie. It is, essentially, stored in plain text on the harddrive.
Finally, and most importantly, protect your user against XSS and CSRF attacks.
XSS protection is generally as simple as being careful where you include Javascript from, because Javascript on another server could be changed without your knowledge, and this Javascript has access to cookie data. So if you're using Evil Corp's content-delivery network to serve your jQuery script, they can suddenly add code to send them your users' cookies. You wouldn't know; your users wouldn't know.
Either download scripts and serve them from your own server or use very well-trusted CDNs such as Google or Yahoo.
CSRF protection is usually done by having a random value in a hidden field in a form. The value is kept in the session so that when the form is resubmitted, you can verify it came from the same computer.
Most web frameworks now have very simple techniques for including that token.
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• Use the secure and httpOnly flags.
• Encode the session cookie data and cryptographically sign the encoded data with a MAC. Check the signature at the server every time, before bothering to decode the session cookie data. (Rails does this by default.)
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I'm working on a CMS that will be used by others and I'm trying to figure out what the main body of the site page should be called.
Originally, I was going to call it "content" - but perhaps "body" or "page" would be better.
print $content;
This isn't just a question about markup class/id names. It's also about what the name means to people when they first hear it. I want people to know that ____ is the main area of the page.
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I don't know, but: main-content perhaps? ;) – PeeHaa Jan 29 '12 at 2:34
Whatever you want to call it. – Dynamic Jan 29 '12 at 22:18
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At the end of the day anything along the lines of 'content' or 'body' should be fine, as long as you are consistent about using that term throughout your system (both in the front and back end ideally).
For what it's a worth, a quick survey of what some popular CMSs are using for their main text areas (thanks http://www.opensourcecms.com). Yes, these are field names, but 80% of the time this is what will end up in the template, e.g. WordPress "content" -> "the_content()":
• Drupal = body
• Joomla = articletext
• Wordpress = content
• Typo3 = content
• MODx = content
I guess content is probably the safe option if you want to go with what is popular anyway.
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1. Your snippet suggests you're after what to call the templating variable/function. Use whatever you want; it's your app. Most tend toward generic terms, since you aren't necessarily dealing with "pages":
• WordPress: the_content()
• Movable Type: <$mt:entrybody$>
• Drupal: $content (though this dumps out all the content, not just the single field)
• ExpressionEngine: {body}
• MODx: [[content]]
2. But you say it's maybe also something to do with id or class names. That's determined by what theme is applied and you have no control over it(other than forcing people to use themes you provide, I suppose).
3. Then @incarnate's answer provides the names/labels of the content fields within some applications' admin areas, which is again something else entirely.
Whichever it is you're after, no real standard exists or particularly needs to. It's not like you're able to take a WordPress template, dump it into a Drupal installation and have it work. And nobody reasonably expects their ExpressionEngine knowledge to directly translate to Movable Type.
Whatever you decide to use, what's more important is that it ideally be consistent with the rest of your terminology(asking what to name a single arbitrary-to-us variable is a waste of time) and that you provide documentation for it.
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Whatever you do, if its a commonly used word or phrase, then namespace it with a prefix.
This will help avoid conflicts during development, when integrating with other software, and beyond.
e.g. mjw-mainContent mjw-main-content
I usually use the initials of the website, but anything will do really.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51321 | HP Pavilion p7 1070t review
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The good: The HP Pavilion P7 1070T offers faster Photoshop CS5 performance than competing systems in its price range
The bad: Increased competition from Acer and its Gateway subsidiary make this HP seem too expensive.
The bottom line: In a competitive vacuum we would find the HP Pavilion P7 1070T a fine mainstream desktop computer, but except for Photoshop CS5-users, you can get more PC for your money from other vendors.
We mentioned in our review of a recent HP Slimline computer that the mainstream desktop market seems more competitive and commoditized this year. The workaday HP Pavilion P7 1070 helps us illustrate that point yet again. We like this $729 no-frills configuration well enough, but next to competing systems from Acer and its Gateway subsidiary this Pavilion feels either underequipped or too expensive. Heavy Photoshop CS5 users should consider this PC, otherwise, you can get more for your money elsewhere.
HP updated the design of all of its desktops this quarter, and while the new standard Pavilion chassis isn't a major departure from the earlier look, the new offset, glossy black front panel is a bit more stylish and less monolithic. Its circular power button also seems more inviting than the older version's nubby alternative.
HP Pavilion P7 1070T Gateway DX4850-45 Acer Aspire AM3970-U5022
Price $729 $749 $559
CPU 3.1GHz Intel Core i3 2100 2.8GHz Intel Core i5 2300 3.1GHz Intel Core i3 2100
Memory 8GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM 6GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM 6GB 1,333MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics 64MB Intel HD Graphics 2000 embedded graphics 64MB Intel HD Graphics 2000 embedded graphics 64MB Intel HD Graphics 2000 embedded graphics
Hard drives 1TB 7,200 rpm 1TB 5,400 rpm 1TB 5,400 rpm
Optical drive DVD-burner Blu-ray/DVD burner combo DVD-burner
Going entirely by list price, the Pavilion P71070T makes a decent comparison against the $749 Gateway DX4850-45u. The HP costs $20 less and has a faster CPU clock speed, more RAM, and a full-fledged 7,200 rpm hard drive to the Gateway's 5,400 rpm drive. The Gateway's main edge comes from its Blu-ray drive, although its Core i5 CPU is a true quad-core chip, to the dual-core Core i3 that can only simulate four-core performance through Intel's HyperThreading technology.
Though we don't normally like to consider price drops in our comparisons, we feel obligated to note that despite its $749 list price, as of this writing the Gateway is on sale at NewEgg for $499. At that price, the HP can't compete. Even if that deal goes away, we must also point out the Acer Aspire AM3970-U5022, which costs $549, and varies from the HP's configuration only in its hard-drive rotational speed and the fact that it has 6GB of RAM to the HP's 8GB.
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As our performance tests demonstrate, that extra RAM and faster hard drive separates the HP from the Acer and the Gateway systems on our Photoshop CS5 test, and nowhere else. The Acer and the HP are tied on every other test, and the Gateway and its true quad-core chip are otherwise faster than the Pavilion P7. That added Photoshop performance may be enough to sway some of you in the HP's favor, but in general, the HP's comparative speed doesn't justify its cost.
We've criticized Acer recently for skimping out on expansion and connectivity in its budget systems, but unfortunately for HP, the Aspire AM3970 is stronger in this regard than the more expensive Pavilion P7 1070T. HP and Acer both give you plenty of room to add expansion cards, with a PCI Express 16x slot for a discrete 3D card, as well as three 1x PCI slots. HP skimps on the memory slots, though, providing you with only two, next to four in the Acer system.
You also get eight external USB 2.0 jacks on each system, and only 5.1 analog audio support, but where the HP has VGA and DVI outputs, the Acer provides VGA and HDMI. You can always add a DVI-to-HDMI adapter to the HP, and a VGA-to-DVI adapter to the Acer.
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Luis Lavena luislavena at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 09:57:12 EST 2007
On 2/6/07, Guy Ridout <ridoutspam at gmail.com> wrote:
> Luis, I truly appreciate the quick reply and your eagerness to help. It's
> refreshing to have software w/ service! Thank you.
> I tried running the command you suggest:
> INVALID COMMAND: invalid option: --prefix
> latest version, I did the following:
> C:\projects\rails-prod\wingate>gem update mongrel_service
> Updating installed gems...
> Need to update 23 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org
> complete
> Attempting remote update of mongrel_service
> Select which gem to install for your platform (i386-mswin32)
> 1. mongrel_service 0.3.1 (mswin32)
> 2. mongrel_service 0.1 (ruby)
> 3. Cancel installation
> > 1
> Successfully installed mongrel_service-0.3.1-mswin32
> Installing ri documentation for mongrel_service-0.3.1-mswin32.. .
> Installing RDoc documentation for mongrel_service-0.3.1-mswin32...
> Gems: [mongrel_service] updated
> Following this update, the command fails with the same message. Any ideas?
Mmm, did you update mongrel gem too?
$ gem install mongrel --include-dependencies
Mongrel version should be 1.0.1
You should notice the "Mounting Rails at ..." line in the output:
>mongrel_rails start --prefix /test
** Starting Mongrel listening at
** Starting Rails with development environment...
** Mounting Rails at /test...
D:0:Warning: require_gem is obsolete. Use gem instead.
** Rails loaded.
** Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins
** Mongrel available at
** Use CTRL-C to stop.
I tried the same here and it worked, maybe you have an older mongrel version.
> Btw, I apologize if this post breaks the original thread. I'm a mailing list
> newbie, and I didn't have my email settings correct, so there is nothing I
> can reply to (assuming that is what I'm supposed to do!).
Its good that you bring this to mongrel list, we all started as newbies ;-)
try replying to the last mail you get in the same thread (ex, mine, no
mater it the Topic get modified with 're:' by your mail software).
Luis Lavena
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51333 | Studies in the Lives of the Saints: The Blessed Angela of Foligno
[Blessed Angela of Foligno]That Christian mysticism is neither a mere reproduction of the experience of Asiatic ascetics nor a madness that has occasionally possessed the mind of those few who, it may be, have dared to think too profoundly and intimately of God is evident to us almost at once on reading the Book of the Visions of the Blessed Angela of Foligno. A daughter of Saint Francis, she is even in her wildest experiences still in touch with the world that had not always been a matter of indifference to her. While failing to reach the profound and solemn wisdom of Saint Teresa or Saint John of the Cross she continues always to retain a little humanity, so that one loves her more than those others, finding in her simplicity something that is almost of ourselves, transfigured by a great light. Of her life we know almost nothing beside the few facts contained in her autobiography, and even the year of her birth is doubtful. And yet one is content; the few facts of her life are significant of much ; they suggest at least what can never be made certain.
It is perhaps almost with a feeling of relief we learn that her childhood was not overshadowed by the seriousness of that dream of eternal life, that self-examination and introspection, that in the lives of Saint Teresa and Saint Catherine of Siena are to the modern mind, with its curious delight in childhood, so distressing. Happiness! after all that is the peculiar right of childhood, a right less often enjoyed than is generally supposed, one may think. And yet, indeed, that freedom from serious preoccupation, that dreamy well-being, with the limitless horizons of childhood, ignorant of the necessity of death, have something of that serious, almost profound contentment that is happiness or something very near to it, that one loses completely as one grows older, how completely one only realizes in reading the lives of the saints.
For Blessed Angela we may believe that state of childhood lasted long – till indeed we find her married and the world breaking in on that silence and the sweetness of life concealing the true death, calling her, calling her, and almost without thinking, scarcely wakened from that pleasant dream, she runs with open arms into the world that has entrapped her. How long her captivity lasted we do not know – “many years,” she herself says – until one day at dawn perhaps, or at evening, in the silence of the sunshine, or in the song of the stars, she hears a voice irresistible, implacable, and almost like a frightened child she discovers herself, sees herself really for the first time, becomes self-conscious, and bursts into tears. And in the overwhelming impulse of that moment she decides to go to confession, a duty forgotten in the long sweet business of the world. But before that crucifix that was gradually becoming so real and terrible a fact to her she was afraid and could not tell the more grievous of her sins; and again, with a feeling of remorse almost, profoundly curious, fearing the impossibility of ever separating herself from that supreme and terrible love, she swiftly communicated, adding sacrilege to her other sins.
And now her conscience, hitherto almost silent, awakens, suddenly and violently accusing her day and night without rest, so that in utter dismay and terror she flies to her old Father Saint Francis, beseeching him for his aid in many things, especially asking him to send her a confessor who will understand her sins. And it was in the morning after her appeal to Saint Francis that she finds a friar, “a true Chaplain of Christ,” preaching in the church of Saint Felician, to whom she makes a full confession in bitterness, shame and grief, receiving, still with those after sobs shaking her like a weary child, his absolution.
It was from this point Blessed Angela set out upon her slow and wonderful journey towards purification. Nor is there anything easy, or even pleasant by the way. For many years, she says, she was full of grief and without consolation.
In her simple and still child-like way she traces her progress for us in the little chapters of her life. Here she considers among other things the mercy of God; applying herself after she began to be enlightened by that profound love, to a severer penance “of which,” says she, “I speak not here.”
In the terrible caverns of the self-accusing spirit, far from any light of day or sound of life, what agony of darkness has not the soul of man suffered, what fear in the hissing silence, since Christ rose from the dead! The experiences of man in these encounters with himself have become in our own day something very far removed from the Visions of Blessed Angela, have become indeed ugly and consumed with a desire that is almost never spiritual. Yet gross as one may suppose had been the life of the Blessed Angela before she heard that most sweet voice calling her over the Umbrian hills, it is in a mood as simple as that of a maiden that she desires to be gathered to the heart of God, that she hears indeed the words of Christ as the words of a splendid Lover.
“After this,” she says, speaking of an ecstasy of prayer, “after this I went to Saint Francis’s, at Assisi, and as I went along the way praying, just as I had arrived between the cave and the narrow path which leadeth up to Assisi, and a little beyond the cave, in that place it was said unto me, “Thou hast asked of My servant Francis, and I have been pleased to send another messenger. I am the Holy Ghost, and I have come unto thee to give thee consolation which otherwise thou hadst never tasted. And I will come with thee, inwardly within thyself as far as Saint Francis’s, and some of those who are with thee will notice it a little. And it is My will to come with thee and speak with thee the whole of that way, and I will not give over speaking nor wilt thou be able to listen to anything else but Me ; for I have bound thee fast and I will not depart from thee … if thou lovest Me . . . Love Me, for thou art much beloved by Me, much more than I am loved by thee!” And He added in an under breath, “I love thee more than any woman in the valley of Spoleto. Because My servant Francis hath loved me much therefore have I done much for him.” And Christ speaks further with her, telling her that there were few good and at that time but little faith; and complaining, as she says, He speaks to her of the Love He bears the soul. “So great I say is the love which I have for the soul that loveth Me, without malice, that were there now any soul that perfectly loved Me I would give unto it greater grace than formerly I gave unto saints. Ah, there is not any one who can excuse himself from this love, because He Himself truly loveth the soul and He is Himself her love.”
In all the lives of the saints there is not to be found anything more lovely than that walk with Christ through the vineyards of Umbria. Even Saint Francis, who alone of all the saints has conquered the world, has no sweeter experience to tell, no lovelier vision, no calmer or quieter hour in all his life.
Trembling with the eagerness of love that shall be satisfied, on the eve of an experience almost too good to be true, she doubts not quite seriously, but playfully as it were, that this most sweet companion is indeed the Bridegroom. “He said unto me,” she says, “I am He who was crucified for thee, and I had hunger and thirst for thy sake, and so much have I loved thee that I shed My blood for thee.” And He told her of His passion. Then my soul cried out, “If Thou who hast talked with me from the beginning wert the Holy Ghost, Thou wouldst not tell me such great things; and if Thou wert indeed within me, so great ought to be my joy that I could not bear to live.”
And like the miraculous and lovely bridegroom, Christ gives to her to whom He spoke of love, a sign. “Try now to speak with thy companions and think of other things whatsoever thou wilt whether good or evil, and thou wilt not be able to think of aught but Me.”
Wrapped in the arms of Him who had silenced, not only the world, but her own spirit also, all her evil deeds came back into her memory on account of which she realized it may be for the first time that she was worthy of Hell. And it is only in great terror she can contemplate the end of the way in which Jesus accompanied her, nor is she ever willing to loose His hand again “for the whole time that the world should last.”
What a fund of human nature, resolved from all discord it is true, but still poignantly human in its cheerfulness and its simplicity, is there in that experience or vision!
After all she was a true Franciscan. It was against the rules of her order to be more than a little sad, cheerfulness being indeed a kind of duty in those who had heard the very voice of Jesus.
So she explains to us very sweetly that the first companion that accompanied Our Lord Jesus even unto death was Lady Poverty – most perfect, who, so great was the love of God for Saint Francis, was sent even that same sweet Princess to be his companion, and the companion of all his little poor ones, all the days of the world. And with a passionate love and regret she exclaims, “O measureless madness of the world, which after that such and so great a Lord and King of kings has been treated with ignominy and contempt, is ever aspiring unto dignities and wishing for liberty, none being desirous of obedience and subjection for the love of Him, Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
It was to her confessor, Brother Arnold of the Friars Minor, that she told the history of that inner life of the soul, ignoring almost entirely her actual life in the world, which was to her indeed but a dream. He says of her in his second Prologue to her Book of Visions and Instructions, that when at times, standing before him, her soul was lifted up she was not able “to understand anything of what I was reading to her; she was changed in the face and in the body by reason of the word which God spoke to her, and so great was her devotion and delight in these consolations that at times her eyes shone like candles and her face was as a rose.”
And she who had held the rose of the world so tightly in youth, so that the thorns had torn her bosom, and the perfume of the bruised petals had enveloped her, having known the wild love of the world well, ah well, threw it from her for that more excellent desire, that so transfigured her before Brother Arnold.
And it is almost with passionate ecstasy that in the last little chapter of her book she enumerates the seven gifts of this new bridegroom, who had loved her almost in spite of herself, and brought her “out of the wilderness” and spoken so sweetly to her.
Beginning really at the very beginning, she tells this Lover, as in some delightful confidence, that the first gift he gave her was Life, and the second Eternity, the third the Sacrifice of His own life, and the fourth the Reason to understand this, the fifth a Capacity to understand Him, the sixth Wisdom whereby we know the burning Love of God, and the seventh, Love himself, for God is Love.
And indeed almost her last words are concerning that sweet Charity without which there is neither “salvation nor merit.”
“The world jests,” she whispers to her children, “at what I say, namely, that a man can weep for the sins of his neighbours as for his own or even more than for his own, for it seemeth against nature. But it is charity which doeth this, and charity is not of this world.”
She makes no testament, recommending to them instead, “Mutual love and profound humility.”
And it was about Christmas time that she came to pass away to that Lover who had never left her for a moment since He called her from a little distance over the Umbrian hills and valleys on that morning in her youth.
Hesitating on the abyss of God’s infinity, she tells those few gathered around her the profound thought that had come to her almost from that other world for which she was about to set out. “Know ye not,” she says, “that Christ was in the ship while the Tempest was great? Even so is it sometimes in the world, when He permitteth temptations to come, and He Himself seemeth to sleep.”
It was after Compline on the Octave of the Innocents’ Day that having lain all day exceeding joyful in quiet of body and gladness of spirit, at the last hour of the day she fell into a light sleep, and caught up in some dream or vision more lovely by far than any that had come to her before, she let life fall, and was presented to God by Him who had loved her even from the beginning.
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Google::Merchant - provide Google shop with product info
Google::Merchant is extended by
my $feed = Google::Merchant::AtomFeed->new
( title => 'My Webshop'
, website => ''
, string_format => 'TEXT'
( # feed fields
title => 'washing machine'
, webpage => "$website/EAN1234.html"
# google base fields
, id => 'EAN1234'
, price => '12.34 EUR'
With the Merchant interface, shop-owners inform Google which products they have for sale. Read the documentation at Google
Google provides two XML syntaxes to denote product information (and a few other formats). This distribution can be used to produce files in the correct syntax. On the moment, only the feed of Atoms are implemented, although RSS should not be too hard to add. An attempt is made to hide the difference between the two in the here provided interface.
This module can not read merchant files. As you will also discover in the examples shown by Google: they do not use the schema themselves, nearly all examples will fail validation! Especially, the strict order of elements in a sequence is ignored by Google's examples. But there are a few other bugs as well. Also, many used elements are not in the schema. This is repared by this module.
-Option --Default
string_format 'HTML'
title <required>
website <required>
string_format => 'TEXT'|'HTML'|'XHTML'
How are your text strings formatted by default? Google itself does not specify the content of the string elements (elements of type stringAttrValueType -which isn't an attribute type!) However, we do need to diffentiate between strings which already have entities encoded or not. HTML encoded strings are included as CDATA if they contain an ampersand '&'.
title => STRING
website => URI
The list of available OPTIONS is huge: all the fields which can be included in the atom. Not only a few which are RSS/Atom specific (see extension) but also dozens of fields specified by Google.
Returns the default text format.
Feed handling
$obj->write(FILENAME, OPTIONS)
-Option --Default
beautify 0
doc <created internally>
gzip <undef>
beautify => 0|1|2
XML::LibXML output format parameter.
doc => XML::LibXML::Document object
gzip => 0..8
Libxml2 (the library which is used by XML::LibXML) can be compiled with gzip support. A higher compression factor may result in a smaller output file.
Item fields
The RSS interface defines an 'Item', and Google uses that term as well to describe product listings. The Atom interface refers to these as 'Entry' elements.
The Atom interface defines 12 fields, of which Google only uses three: the title, link, and summary. To reduce the gap between the Atom and RSS interface, you pass these three values via parameters title, webpage, and description respectively.
Google defined a huge list of parameters for any product. Look in the examples/ directory of this module for the template which lists the fields and explains their limitations. Most of these fields are described on the 'feed specification' on the google support website.
( # feed fields
title => 'washing machine'
, webpage => "$website/EAN1234.html"
, description => "Best you can buy"
# google base fields
, id => 'EAN1234'
string values
String values (elements of type g:stringAttrValueType) can either be represented as HTML/XHTML or (plain) TEXT. This difference minor but crucial: when HTML is passed as TEXT, you may get double encoding of entities. For instance, '"' may become '&quot;'.
Set the best default with new(string_format). Now, per field you may diverge from the default:
( ...
, string_format => 'HTML'
( ...
, brand => '>"<' # default, here HTML
, isbn => { type => 'TEXT' # overrule default
, _ => '<">'
custom fields
When you want custom fields, you have to build elements by hand. These elements must be in the NS_GOOGLE_CUSTOM namespace, and use the same $doc element as the writer.
use Google::Merchant::Util ':ns10';
my $profit = $doc->createElementNS(NS_GOOGLE_CUSTOM10, 'profit', '10.5 EUR');
$profit->setAttribute(elementType => 'floatUnit');
( ...
, 'c:profit' => $profit
$feed->writer($fn, doc => $doc);
When your custom extensions, you can implement it nicer. I will not explain that here until someone needs it ;-)
This module is part of Google-Merchant distribution version 0.14, built on May 28, 2013. Website:
Copyrights 2013 on the perl code and the related documentation by [Mark Overmeer] for StudioSV, The Netherlands. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
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So, rather than guessing just what the cause is (though my money's on the nvidia drivers), where do I start looking to pin down some facts?
I've been through /var/log on several occasions but there's a LOT of stuff in there and I can't (yet) spot the important bits.
Background: The Short Version
I moved from WinXP to Ubuntu Karmic just after it became available.
Since then I have had a series of seemingly random crashes that manifest as either:
• a spontaneous reboot
• a complete lockup with my USB keyboard and mouse becoming unresponsive (right down to he LEDs all turning off). Also I will typically be unable to ssh to the box when this happens.
I've done plenty of searching and Nvidia seems to be the prime suspect but I have no idea where to start looking to work out just what the real cause is.
Background: The Long Version
At times, I can go an entire week without a crash then have 5 in 2 days.
Motivated by the desire to eliminate possible suspects, I've made a few changes over time to no avail:
• Originally I used KVM for virtualization, I now use VirtualBox OSE
• I had NFS running in the kernel but now use Samba
• I was using Compiz but have since turned that off
• I've rolled from 64-bit Karmic to 32-bit (for other reasons as well)
• I've tried Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Same trouble each time.
• I rolled the Nvidia driver from version 185 back to version 96 (NVIDIA Linux x86 Kernel Module 96.43.13 Thu Jun 25 18:42:21 PDT 2009). This seems to have reduced the frequency of error.
In terms of what's running at the time, this can vary. The following are common but were not necessarily running for every crash:
• Firefox 3.5
• VirtualBox OSE with 1 or 2 Windows XP VMs
• Skype
• Rhythmbox or Exaile
My hardware is 2 - 3 years old:
• Core 2 Duo 6300
• 4GB RAM
• some breed of Intel motherboard of that vintage
• an Asus dual-head video card with Nvdia GeForce 7300 GS chipset
• 2 x SATA HDDs
• dual monitors (hence I rely on the proprietary nvidia drivers)
I've been keeping current with my system updates.
Hopefully the data above might prompt someone to suggest a specific type of log or config that would be worth investigating.
RAM seems fine
Per suggestion below will re-post on superuser
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It looks like a question for superuser.com. – alfplayer Jan 21 '10 at 18:04
reposted to superuser – LRE Feb 9 '10 at 5:04
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Linux and other Unix like systems are more sensitive to flaky RAM than windows. I would run memtest86 and check the RAM
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This should definitely be your first step. Once this is assured, then move on to figuring out driver problems. – Michael Kohne Jan 20 '10 at 1:55
Great tip thanks. Unfortunately no luck - memTest86+ turned up nothing – LRE Jan 20 '10 at 19:13
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Such problems can indeed be caused by faulty hardware (if you suspect the nvidia driver, maybe the graphics card has a hardware error?)
• if you have temperature monitoring enabled (with sensors-applet / lm_sensors), are there any high readings?
• did you do any overclocking?
• did you have weird crashes/hangs/reboots under Windows as well?
If the system hangs, some things to check for:
• are the keyboard LEDs blinking? AFAIK that would indicate a Kernel Panic (ie. Kernel crashed)
• can you reach the system with Ping?
• use the SysRq key combo (must be enabled beforehand) to see if you can get some response from system
• see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key for details
• you should check that the key is really enabled and working by pressing Alt+SysRq+h on the virtual terminal (switch there with Ctrl+Alt+F1; switch back with Ctrl+Alt+F7)
• after reboot, check log files (/var/log/syslog, /var/log/Xorg.0.log) for last messages
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no overclocking. Occasional issues with Windows but hard to read much into them - not as frequent was with Linux. Will look into the temperature monitoring. – LRE Feb 7 '10 at 22:50
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Maybe it is a hardware problem? I have experience with broken video card that hanged the computer without leaving any traces on kernel log. To isolate the problem try some LiveCD that uses compositing, or better yet: play a 3D game ;-). See: related post on UL forum
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I created a 3TB iSCSI target for all my Macs to use as a Time Machine Backup but would like to shrink it. I don't want to delete it as then I would lose all the backups.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Most SANs don't support shrinking LUNs as most file systems don't support shrinking volumes. You'll probably need to create a new LUN then migrate the data then delete the old larger LUN.
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I have the following delete SQL statement:
delete w,r from table1 w, table2 r where (w.status=1 or r.status=1)
show engine innodb status shows the following. is the read rate(237.29 reads/s) referring to the reads after the filter(where) condition? or is it referring to all elements of the join prior to the filter? This is importance since I'm trying to gauge the time it would take to finish the query. Both tables are very large however the filtered results are relatively small.
1 queries inside InnoDB, 0 queries in queue
1 read views open inside InnoDB
Main thread process no. 5163, id 1090357568, state: waiting for server activity
Number of rows inserted 25005429, updated 1722842, deleted 371088, read 2176564571
0.00 inserts/s, 0.00 updates/s, 0.00 deletes/s, 237.29 reads/s
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Am I wrong or you did not specify any join condition on w and r? That mean your are doing a big cartesian join of both tables, this would be certainly longer than 2 delete queries, one on each table.
Don't you have something that make w and r relatd to each other, like:
delete w,r
from table1 w ,table2 r
where (w.r_id=r.r_id)
and (w.status=1 or r.status=1)
or at least you could join them on the status field. And obviously indexing the status field is a must.
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Good morning everyone. Our client has moved their domain to another server we provide (moved from VM to dedicated). Can anybody advise me on how to import the client's e-mails from the previous IP address (the VM had)? The client has the same e-mail address that he used to have before moving to dedicated server. We use Kloxo control Panel and the client used Roundcube web mail to access their e-mails. Thanx in advance!
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To import emails in kloxo here is the folder, you just need to copy them (I think)
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I'll start by admitting I've never even heard of Kloxo, but my general solution to "how do I bulk-migrate mail from server A to server B" is to find out if both source and destination servers support IMAP, then use an IMAP client that deals well with bulk operations - personally, I prefer alpine - and bulk-copy the contents, one folder at a time, from source to destination.
If I had a really large number of folders to move, I suspect there exist PERL scripts for this sort of thing, which again do it via IMAP; but I've never yet had a need for that
IMAP's a well-understood and well-implemented standard, and using a protocol-based method lets you sidestep round questions of internal storage format, indexing, and so on, as each server will provide that for itself.
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Actually kloxo users qmail as a mail server, if this makes it more specific. – alfista16 Oct 16 '12 at 8:01
No, but it opens up the common misunderstanding that there's such a thing as "a mail server", one fostered (imho) by exchange. In most implementations, the sending of mail out, and the reading of mail in, are two completely different functions, handled by at least two different daemons. The former, which implements the SMTP protocol, is known as a Mail Transport Agent (MTA); qmail is one such. The latter, which implements IMAP and/or the POP protocols, are known as IMAP/POP daemons (though often an IMAP daemon will do POP for free, as it were); I'm interested in what you have there. – MadHatter Oct 16 '12 at 8:11
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Actually the answer was much simpler than i expected. I just had to copy (using the scp command) the files from the mail directory of the old server to the respective mail directory of the new one, which by the way for a kloxo control panel is:
/home/lxadmin/mail/domains/[client's_domain]/[clients e-mail]/Maildir/cur
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I have a script that is being access via a URL like this:
I need nginx to handle this specific route and send it to PHP. Right now my config currently just catches anything ending in .php and sends it to PHP. How can I tweak my config to handle the case above as well?
Here is my nginx block:
# Pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
# With php5-cgi alone:
# With php5-fpm:
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
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Your fastcgi_split_pathinfo will not do anything, cause the location does not contain a slash and is anchored at the match end. Use a location like this:
location ~ \.php/ {
fastcgi_split_pathinfo ^(.*\.php)(/.*)$;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
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I have an issue with a certificate authority in a windows 2003 domain. We need one configured to allow ssl/tls encrypted traffic over LDAP so that our Application Gateway server is able to allow users to change domain passwords.
I do not have a lot of knowledge on certificates and the server functions of a CA.
We have had a CA setup on a domain server that is not a domain controller. This appears to be fine. However, when trying to add a new Automatic Certificate Request under the Public Key Policies section, I get strange results.
When carrying out this action I choose the Domain Controller Certificate template and hit next I get the following screen:
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I would actually expect to be able to choose the CA server at this point. Clicking finsh, closes the wizard and there are no more options to choose from. Can anyone suggest some diagnostic steps I can take?
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The templates you see in the Automatic Setup are determined by the security settings on the Certificate Templates on your CA server(s). Most computers can only get the Computer certificate because of how the security defaults. Another option open to you is to use the Certificate MMC to request it on the DC itself.
1. Start -> Run -> MMC
2. Add the "Certificates" snap-in, for the Computer Account
3. Open the "Personal" store
4. Right click on "Certificates" and go to All Tasks -> Request New Certificate
5. This will give you a short list. On a DC it should have a "Domain Controller" option Pick it.
6. Go through the wizard
You should get a Domain certificate that'll be used for LDAPS.
However, if you DO NOT have an Enterprise CA you won't have some of these templates. A "Standalone CA" doesn't have the same features as the above. I don't have a lot of experience with those so I can't guide you.
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Thanks for the suggestion - looks like that will do it. Will doing this cause anything untoward to happen? (will accept answer shortly) – Kip Sep 3 '09 at 14:58
How it's supposed to work is that the certificate presented by the SSL-secured services on the DC will start using that certificate. Anything in the domain should have the root of your tree in their trusted roots list just by being in the domain. It's the non-domained machines that'll throw SSL-validation fits if they don't have the CA cert. – sysadmin1138 Sep 4 '09 at 6:09
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The prison abuse scandal refuses to die because soothing White House explanations keep colliding with revelations about dead prisoners and further connivance by senior military officers -- and newly discovered victims, like Sean Baker.
If Sean Baker doesn't sound like an Iraqi name, it isn't. Specialist Baker, 37, is an American, and he was a proud U.S. soldier. An Air Force veteran and member of the Kentucky National Guard, he served in the first gulf war and more recently was a military policeman in Guantánamo Bay.
Then in January 2003, an officer in Guantánamo asked him to pretend to be a prisoner in a training drill. As instructed, Mr. Baker put on an orange prison jumpsuit over his uniform, and then crawled under a bunk in a cell so an "internal reaction force" could practice extracting an uncooperative inmate. The five U.S. soldiers in the reaction force were told that he was a genuine detainee who had already assaulted a sergeant.
Despite more than a week of coaxing, I haven't been able to get Mr. Baker to give an interview. But he earlier told a Kentucky television station what happened next:
Then the soldiers noticed that he was wearing a U.S. battle dress uniform under the jumpsuit. Mr. Baker was taken to a military hospital for treatment of his head injuries, then flown to a Navy hospital in Portsmouth, Va. After a six-day hospitalization there, he was given a two-week discharge to rest.
But Mr. Baker began suffering seizures, so the military sent him to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center for treatment of a traumatic brain injury. He stayed at the hospital for 48 days, was transferred to light duty in an honor burial detail at Fort Dix, N.J., and was finally given a medical discharge two months ago.
Meanwhile, a military investigation concluded that there had been no misconduct involved in Mr. Baker's injury. Hmm. The military also says it can't find a videotape that is believed to have been made of the incident.
Most appalling, when Mr. Baker told his story to a Kentucky reporter, the military lied in a disgraceful effort to undermine his credibility. Maj. Laurie Arellano, a spokeswoman for the Southern Command, questioned the extent of Mr. Baker's injuries and told reporters that his medical discharge was unrelated to the injuries he had suffered in the training drill.
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Major Arellano acknowledges that she misstated the facts and says she had been misinformed herself by medical personnel. She now says the medical discharge was related in part -- but only in part, she says -- to the "accident."
Mr. Baker, who is married and has a 14-year-old son, is now unemployed, taking nine prescription medications and still suffering frequent seizures. His lawyer, Bruce Simpson, has been told that Mr. Baker may not begin to get disability payments for up to 18 months. If he is judged 100 percent disabled, he will then get a maximum of $2,100 a month.
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Comment: Soundproofed my case! (Score 1) 371
by Zargg (#46117359) Attached to: How loud is your primary computer?
Surprised I haven't seen more of this here: http://www.xoxide.com/acoustip...
Between that stuff and the Noctua super quiet fans and humongous CPU heatsink, I don't think I ever hear my desktop even when gaming all day, but I can easily hear when the server drives spin up in the closet...makes the whole damn cabinet vibrate.
Comment: Re:It isn't any different elsewhere (Score 1) 299
by Zargg (#45149557) Attached to: Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes
Your reply seems obtuse.
I am playing a little bit of devil's advocate so I am purposefully being a little obtuse hehe, but I do think that this is a perfect example of a process that doesn't need to be applied anymore, at least in it's current form. Winning elections without winning popular vote just doesn't make sense in my mind. I guess I am generally leaning more toward Democracy than Democratic Republic...
Right now the 'battleground' states contain a mix of both urban and rural concerns. This enfranchises a cross section of the American electorate, albeit arbitrarily.If the electoral college were eliminated, there would no longer be any rural 'battleground' areas since winning the densest population centers would be the only key to victory, effectively disenfranchising the interests of huge geographic areas across the country. An artificial cross section of American society is better than giving a voice solely based on population/density.
But that isn't why they are battleground states. They are just battleground states because half the state disagrees with the other half, it's not necessarily urban vs rural, so we are arbitrarily setting our electorate cross section to be roughly half democrat half republican, even though the general population is not. And yes, winning more votes from citizens should be the only key to victory, not winning states based on winner take all electoral college rules. I don't see why population, density, or who your neighbors vote for should affect your voting power.
This is something that the founders were mindful of, which is why we have a Senate. The electoral college performs a somewhat similar function.
I do see the need for this balance in the Senate for legislation and daily representation in D.C., but not for Presidential elections. Voting once every 4 years for the leader of your country should be required of every citizen by law IMO.
Until a better way can be found to mitigate the consequences of tipping this balance, it must necessarily be another can kicked down the road. As political cans go, it's a lot more harmless than the debt.
Yup, one of the many things to add to the list...how sad :(
Comment: Re:It isn't any different elsewhere (Score 1) 299
by Zargg (#45137407) Attached to: Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes
I don't see the problem you are describing. Currently, people in hard blue or red states are disenfranchised and have no voice because candidates generally focus on campaigning in the battleground states, and their vote does nothing if their state is guaranteed to go to who they aren't voting for. If there were no electoral college and it was all done by popular vote, that would even out the voting power by taking it away from battleground states and putting it equally into the hands of all US citizens. Campaigning in dense metro areas would just be the most efficient way of connecting to voters, why is that a bad thing?
Comment: Re:Weasel words FTFY (Score 1) 526
by Zargg (#44714049) Attached to: Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions
Road Rage caused by others being under THC influence will increase.
Seriously? You've never been around a high person have you?
addictive behavior will cause the exact same number of families to suffer and to be torn apart
Most studies say it is about as addictive as caffeine...most of it is psychological even, not physical.
bankruptcies due to marijuana consumption will go up while bankruptcies due to alcohol consumption will go down by the same number.
I'm just going to LOL at this one!
Comment: Grande with a shot of poop (Score 1, Insightful) 184
by Zargg (#44650917) Attached to: Researchers Discover Way To Spot Crappy Coffee
Wait a minute...we wait for a random animal to eat and poop out the coffee beans, and charge MORE for this? What exactly is supposed to make this better than the fresh coffee bean?
Comment: I'm more surprised... (Score 5, Interesting) 135
there were officials sitting and watching the electronic tally in real time, with the IP addresses attached even, and they were able to spot it and track the IP to the physical location and get there before he was done. Am I the only one surprised at the level of security for a student election? I guess it has been a problem before, since they had this whole system set up for this...
Comment: Re:I fully support this! (Score 1) 177
by Zargg (#44197989) Attached to: Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting
Females futzing over cosmetics, shampoo, overpriced clothing, men extolling the virtues beer, of overpriced fuel guzzling hotrods, both of them falling for weight loss snakeoil, expensive and unnecessary pharmaceuticals, breast augmentation, hairloss treatments and cat toys.
I have to ask...what show are you watching that has cat toy commercials that are so evil and offensive? I'm not sure I've ever even seen a cat toy commercial...
Comment: Re:How about this (Score 1) 279
by Zargg (#44191789) Attached to: Disney's Titling Problem With Its <em>Star Wars</em> Movies
I think a lot of people are focusing on the movies too much, remember that Disney does much more with their characters than movies. Imagine a Star Wars land at Disney world, Star wars cruises, and then do it all again with Marvel also. They are the one company is a position to do way more than just more Star Wars movies.
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Comment: Re:how much pure knowledge have we discarded? (Score 3, Informative) 191
by garat (#13694346) Attached to: Heart Surgeon Takes Notes from da Vinci
one of the most healthy foods you can eat is tuna
While tuna is actually an excellent source of protein (remember that a healthy diet needs many other things as well), there is a downside: eating large quantities can introduce the risk of consuming too much mercury; here's two interesting links: w.mercurypolicy.org/new/documents/CanTheTunaReleas eFinal061903.pdf+tuna+mercury&hl=en&client=safari
http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/tuna.as p
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Comment: with real internet, you don't GO anywhere (Score 1) 38
by jinchoung (#46432819) Attached to: New VR Game Makes You a "Hollywood Hacker"
i think this is the most misleading thing about cyberpunk and hollywood hacking tropes... that there is a cyberspace that actually exists in some allegorical way and that a user's avatar can actually "travel" from point to point looking upon and travel to floating pyramids of information. that analogy is totally wrong.
the far more accurate analogy is simply making telephone calls. if you are anywhere at all, you are right smack dab, ass down in chair in front of your computer. and your computer itself doesn't ever travel anywhere. all it is doing is sending and receiving messages. sure, you're getting messages from different nodes but that's just like receiving lots of phone calls from different people.
you can surreptitiously send messages that cause unexpected behavior or make a call under an assumed identity... but ultimately, all hacking is about sending and receiving messages...
and it's amusing how far hollywood and narrative fiction has to go to make that seem dramatically interesting.
Comment: bitcoin is not independent and that's a problem (Score 1) 631
by jinchoung (#46352863) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin?
its value is pegged to "real" money.
if it never or rarely converted to government backed cash, then it is viable. goods and services for bitcoins. that's a closed loop system that can be completely independent of all the players its purporting to avoid.
but since people are buying into and cashing out and even SPECULATING with real currency, then you have an achilles heel.
the point at which conversion happens IS regulated and guarded by government players and is actually and IDEAL place for governments to actually sabotage the entire endeavor if they wanted to.
so until bitcoins slash any and all ties with real currencies and certainly until it loses all DEPENDENCE on them, they are just a new forex player that is highly unstable and insecure.
Comment: re: birthday problem (Score 1) 166
by jinchoung (#46274341) Attached to: Why Improbable Things Really Aren't
one thing to remember about the birthday problem is that in a given classroom or other populated gathering, it's very likely that two people will have the same birthday... BUT... it says nothing about the possibility of any two people having any PARTICULAR birthday. so as long as you don't care what the date is, yes, two people will more than likely have one in common. but the odds that anyone will have a particular one or one that is the same as yours - those are still pretty big odds against.
Comment: happily, this is almost as true of govs & spy (Score 1) 299
by jinchoung (#46207477) Attached to: Online, You're Being Watched At All Times; Act Accordingly.
thanks to the likes of snowden and wikileaks...
actually, it's long been historically understood that secrets have a short shelf life and have a tendency to proliferate sooner or later. moreso in the internetted era.
ellsberg wasn't the first and snowden won't be the last. govs have their asses blowing in the wind too and that provides a nice little incentive to keep their goddamn motherfucking noses clean. it's nice that they've been recently reminded of that.
the fact of gov activity as well as the work product is more or less guaranteed to be wide-banded at some point can serve as a protection where civil rights fail us. as in the cold war, the thing that keeps us safe is MAD... mutually assured destruction... sure you COULD use the breadth and depth to spy on kate upton's auto erotic escapades but that just means that at some point, that fact and the titillating surveillance itself will fall into the public some day. if you have a system composed of human beings, you're gonna have leaks.
eventually, it will be that stalemate that saves us... the fact that gov or private citizen, anyone can spy on anyone else but the fact that all activity and all resulting data will be public information at some point will enforce restraint.
actually, i think that MAD is the only thing that really works in this world. mexican stand-offs for all. because human beings are fucking dicks and the only thing keeping us from ass raping others is a gigantic, barbed wired cock poise at our own back doors.
Comment: mystifying... why? (Score 4, Insightful) 249
by jinchoung (#46181263) Attached to: Wozniak To Apple: Consider Building an Android Phone
android provides two things:
- free, ready to go OS
- app ecosystem
Comment: Re:More garbage (Score 2) 353
by jinchoung (#45972097) Attached to: Programmer Privilege
not just societal bias... but luck and fate in general.
you have NOT earned ANYTHING you have fair and square. you owe EVERYTHING to a fate and destiny that you had NOTHING to do with:
- health (mental, physical, deformities, etc)
- race
- intelligence
- height
- beauty
- constitution and the very ability to work hard
- place of birth
only the delusional think they'd be in the same place they are now if they were retarded, with no limbs, cancer ridden and born in botswana.
your very ability to pursue your own good are byproducts from essential factors that you are blessed with.
it's not insulting because nothing you have is rightfully "earned" in the way you mean it.
Comment: Re:More garbage (Score 1) 353
by jinchoung (#45972055) Attached to: Programmer Privilege
people aren't that complex. you can study them and their behaviors like you could study monkeys or whales.
people who are tall and/or good looking get TREMENDOUS advantages and opportunities that people who are not don't enjoy.
sure, weasel over there may be rainman great at accurately counting toothpicks but that doesn't account for much in the social world we live in.
when all is said and done, we have "earned" nothing on our own merit. every single thing that we have is due to advantage that we did not control.
- health (mental, physical, deformities, etc)
- race
- intelligence
- height
- beauty
- constitution and the very ability to work hard
- place of birth
all of these things are crap shoots that we did not earn. few people who are beneficiaries of good luck admit it as such. glad that this professor guo has the ability to do it. but the people who are the bad side of it can see it as clear as they can see their misshapen hand in front of their face and its veracity is unequivocal.
to admit that the race is not fair is simply to be rational.
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Comment: Re: This is the AP Comp Sci exam (Score 0) 489
by readin (#45936577) Attached to: Tech's Gender and Race Gap Starts In High School
the race gap is definitely a cultural thing, what else could it be?
I used to think the same way - mostly as a act of faith or dogma. But as I get older, learn more about history, the world, and science, I find myself doubting my earlier faith.
On an individual leverl, discrimination remains both stupid and wrong. Men are taller than women in general, but if you need something off the top shelf you don't ask Danny Devito instead of Geena Davis just because Danny Devito is a man.
However for social policy we may have to come to terms with differences. Perhaps the liberals when they insist on affirmative action aren't being racist, they're just being realistic about how unfair advantage is the only way to let some groups succeed. It may be that conservatives are wrong to think that if we treat everyone equally the achievements of racial groups will even out over time. And if equality between groups is necessary for social stability - maybe we have to discriminate.
It's scary to think that racial differences may be significant because of the social questions it raises. But we may have to stop burying our heads and look at the statistics with an open mind.
Comment: Re:That media is really on top of things (Score 1) 266
by readin (#45926373) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook
Don't be so hard on the media. It took them a year to break the IRS scandal news, and then they forgot about it once the President had some up with a barely plausible denial. It only took them 5 months to catch on to the bridge thing, and you can be they'll be talking about it until Christie has a serious conservative opponent.
So based on those two data points we have a press that is getting faster at recognizing scandals and is focusing on them longer. That's good, right?
Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 2) 266
by readin (#45926349) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook
If I had made that list it would focus on two events
* The closing of national parks, blocking of scenic overlooks, etc. that were often unnecessary and in fact more expensive than not doing them during the government shutdown. The President was attempting to blame Republicans for pain he was inflicting.
. * The IRS targeting of conservative groups that effectively prevented them from having a strong effect during the 2012 election.
Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 1, Insightful) 266
by readin (#45926327) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook
It is really telling that your entire list refers to a certain Democratic president, and mixes in things that (in your opinion) are bad policy.
You're right. Maybe we should do something about that guy.
But we won't. When Nixon did similar stuff, the Republican senators went to him and told him it was time to go. He resigned in disgrace. The Republican senators and representatives were punished mercilessly for it and lost many seats in Congress. The Democrats have learned the lesson well - in this age of widespread ignorance their political fortunes depend more on the popularity of their president or presidential candidate than it does on their individual actions. The demonstrated in with Clinton that they will defend their guy no matter what (even when he lies under oath - that used to be a big deal). They certainly won't go after Obama.
Comment: Re:beacon of freedom (Score 3, Insightful) 266
by readin (#45926283) Attached to: How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook
So you use a bunch of left-wing websites to "debunk" the news?
I don't have time to go into everything, and in fact most of the list doesn't interest me that much.
But the IRS scandal wasn't hatched a couple days before the national press finally noticed. The IRS behavior was being noticed and complained about for many many months before it became widespread knowledge. You probably heard about the IRS being used as a political weapon in spring of 2013.
From July of 2012, "Even worse, the IRS has responded to dozens of tax-exemption applications by tea-party groups with astonishingly intrusive document demands, seeking not only donor lists but also lists of volunteers." http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310384/obama-s-sunshine-policy-david-french
Mr. French is referring to a DailyCaller article from February 2012, http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/22/congressional-investigations-sought-over-irs-assault-on-tea-party-groups/
Yes it's true that these are all conservative websites, but who else was going to cover news at that time that was negative to President Obama and wasn't already high profile?
Anyway, here is a non-conservative site debunking your debunking http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/14/irs-tea-party-progressive-groups/2158831/
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In Visual Studio, a certain project has a designer window open which is crashing visual studio. As soon as I open visual studio it crashes. I know that if I could close that designer, I'd be back in business. But I can't click the close button on the designer view before studio crashes.
What should I do?
Note: I tried devenv.exe /safemode. When I tried this, the designer still was open and the DevExpress suite loaded, and the guage control was showing on the design surface, and then studio crashed.
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Is this a WPF application per chance? – Anthony Potts Dec 9 '09 at 16:16
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If the project is part of a Visual Studio Solution you can delete the solution user options file ([Solution File Name].suo). This way Visual Studio will not open any files when starting.
You would probably continue to have the problem as soon as you open that designer though.
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You can turn on logging on DEVENV. Start the environment as follows:
devenv.exe /log
The output is written to
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Visual Studio\8.0\ActivityLog.xml
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I've implemented a web based instant messaging / chat feature using http binding and ejabberd. For the lazy here's the short version of my question:
How would you go about implementing a web based XMPP chat client which could be displayed in multiple browser windows simultaneously, each displaying an identical view of the open chats?
More detailed ramblings for those who care:
One potential solution would be to just let every tab manage it's own connection. XMPP has decent enough support for multiple clients so let it do the routing. I have at least 2 issues with this solution. 1 is the obvious increase in bandwidth consumption this would cause. 2 is the current lack of support for multiple clients with the same JID to connect to MUC rooms in ejabberd. This will apparently be implemented for 3.1 but it's a major issue for me as it stands.
Initially I wondered if there might be some flash magic involved but it seems the swf on the page is only used to play the notification sound effects. You can confirm this by using firebug or similar to delete the embed tag. The chat feature still works.
This basically leaves me with cookies as the only way to share between the tabs. In this scenario a master tab would dump all messages to cookies which could be polled from other tabs. This seems quite ridiculous to me as the poll frequency would have to be exceptionally high to avoid any latency. What would happen when the 'master' window was closed?
I've seen this done by more than one site and normally when I look at problems like these I can at least understand at least vaguely how I'd go about it but I don't mind admitting this one has got me stumped.
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I've done stuff like this before, but I am not sure if I understand your question. You mean having different browser tabs with exactly the same chats? – Francisco Soto Jul 15 '10 at 16:42
yeah exactly our users might have multiple tabs or windows open at the same time and I want them to be able to monitor their open chats from any tab / window. – Ollie Edwards Jul 15 '10 at 18:41
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So I've poked around in facebook chat a little more and it seems that they are just letting every tab manage it's own connection. Ejabberd puts several hurdles in my way to achieve this with MUC rooms so I guess that's why I was inclined to discount this solution initially. I think private messaging only should be more straightforward for anyone else interested.
The issue with multiple MUC instances is https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-305
I guess I'l have to make a case for patching ejabberd. If anyone has any other observations I'd love to hear them.
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I'm wondering if anyone can give a solid explanation (with example) of POCO (Plain Old CLR Object). I found a brief explanation on Wikipedia but it really doesn't give a solid explanation.
I'm looking for Pros/Cons... Implementation... Benefit... etc. Thanks in advance.
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Instead of calling them POCO's, i prefer to call them persistence ignorant objects.
Because their job is simple, they don't need to care about what they are being used for or how they are being used for.
Personally i think POCO's are just another buzzword (like Web 2.0 - don't get me started on that) for a public class with simple properties.
I've always been using these type of objects to hold onto business state.
The main benefit's of POCO's are really seen when you start to use things like the repository pattern, ORM's and dependency injection.
In other words - you could create an ORM (let's say EF) which pulls back data from somewhere (db, web service, etc), then project this data into objects (POCO's).
These objects can be passed further down the app stack to the service layer, then onto the web tier.
Then if one day you decide to switch over to nHibernate, you should not have to touch your POCO's at all, the only thing that should need to be changed is the ORM.
Hence the term 'persistence ignorant' - they don't care what they're being used for or how they are being used.
So to sum up, the pro's:
• Allows a simple storage mechanism for data, simplifies serialization/passing around through layers
• Goes hand in hand with depedency injection, repository pattern and ORM's. Flexibility.
• Minimized complexity and dependencies on other layers. (higher layer's only care about the POCO's, POCO's don't care about anything). Loose coupling
• Simple testability (no stubbing required for domain testing).
Hope that helps.
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This makes perfect sense. I like your use of the phrase "buzz word". It appears as though I'm already using this in my project. The use that I'm doing is to pull "some" User data using L2S (basically 4 of the 10 fields in the database) and storing them in a very basic "POCO" object. I then serialize that object and store it as the UserData object in the ASP.NET Auth Cookie. So that I can retrieve it later without hitting the database again. – Chase Florell Aug 2 '10 at 23:53
@rockinthesixstring - exactly my point. we've been using POCO's for years, its just another way to label something. Personally, i like the combination of repository pattern/dependency injection and ORM's - in this scenario you would be crazy not to use POCO's. It's all about the loose coupling. Of course i have no idea what technology you are using (i'm drawing from my .NET experience) – RPM1984 Aug 2 '10 at 23:56
Yeah, as I stated in my comment, I'm using ASP.NET - I'm actually using MVC2. – Chase Florell Aug 2 '10 at 23:57
I have a Repository Layer, a Service Layer, and I'm using Linq to SQL as my ORM. I've used the "POCO" for object serialization within a cookie. – Chase Florell Aug 2 '10 at 23:58
@rockinthesixstring - nice. MVC rocks! (i also use this). – RPM1984 Aug 2 '10 at 23:58
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You need to give more details, such as the context in which you are planning to use POCO. But the basic idea is that you will create simple objects containing only the data/code that is necessary. These objects would not contain any "baggage" such as annotations, extra methods, base classes, etc that might otherwise be required by (for example) a framework.
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Example of a POCO:
class Person {
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
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I'm stunned that this can be upvoted - how is this pro's/con's,implemtnation,benefit? – RPM1984 Aug 3 '10 at 0:00
haha... ah well. I've passed the "answer" off to you @RPM1984. – Chase Florell Aug 3 '10 at 0:02
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To create a new Ruby gem for use with Rails 3, should I use Jeweler or should I use Bundler's built-in gem skeleton to create a base gem? What are the differences that matter?
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possible duplicate of Ruby : How to write a gem? – Andrew Marshall Mar 14 '12 at 20:17
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Use Bundler
From the command line:
bundle gem your_new_gem
This will create a directory called your_new_gem with just a basic set of files and directory structure that are now considered best-practice. It's quick, easy, and a great place to start.
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Creating a Gem isn't that difficult and I would advise to try building a gem from scratch, without any tools. After you know what's involved (creating a gemspec, building and pushing it to rubygems.org), you can use tools to speed up the process. My guess is you won't because making a gem is hardly the trouble at all.
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Good point. It is better to understand how to do it from scratch before you use a generator. This will make it alot easier to debug any problems that arise if you decide to use Jeweler. I do think that Jeweler makes it alot easier to create a gem and it forces you to do things like creating a description, versioning, etc.. why would you create it from scratch (after you do it once to learn it), when you can use a Jeweler and speed the process? Waste of time in my opinion, and less prone to errors. – cowboycoded Dec 5 '10 at 19:35
I appreciate the discussion. – Daniel Kehoe Dec 6 '10 at 3:02
sorry I'm late: What jeweler creates isn't easier, it just moves the stuff to the Rakefile. A gemspec is only about 10 lines. I like the stuff bundler generates though. Sensible and minimal. – iain Dec 9 '10 at 21:57
Learning to write a gem from scratch instead of using a generator is like writing a web framework from scratch without using rails new. I see your point about creating one from scratch, but for someone new to creating gems (or anything for that matter), sometimes it's easier to learn by example. When you see what the generator builds, you can learn what each piece does and why it is important to the structure. Once you understand how it works, then you can write one from scratch. – Andrew Jul 16 '11 at 5:54
In that case, I would go for the generator provided by bundler gem. – iain Jul 17 '11 at 11:34
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I would go with Jeweler. The Bundler skeleton is only going to give you the basics. Jeweler has alot more options to work with and many helpful rake tasks for versioning, pushing to github, creating the gemspec, building and installing.
If you are working with Rails 3 engines, I have a Jeweler fork (definitely a work-in-progress) that will generate the app skelaton and include the engine file. You just have to run the jeweler command with --rails3-engine as an option. Here is the fork if you are interested:
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Jeweler is no longer kept up-to-date as much as Bundler, as the author confesses that most people now use Bundler instead: github.com/technicalpickles/jeweler/issues/232 – joonty Feb 15 '13 at 8:58
I agree. I no longer use jeweler. It is probably better to start from scratch your first time, so you understand how the gemspec works. – cowboycoded Feb 15 '13 at 14:39
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Here's an alternative that's worth looking at: ore
Bundler gives you a single template for ruby gems, whereas ore has multiple built in templates, plus the ability to create your own. It also supports Git, SVN (urgh) and Mercurial.
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Excuse the beginner level of this question. I have the following simple code, but it does not seem to run. It gets a segmentation fault. If I replace the pointer with a simple call to the actual variable, it runs fine... I'm not sure why.
struct node
int x;
struct node *left;
struct node *right;
int main()
struct node *root;
root->x = 42;
printf("Hello world. %d", root->x);
return 0;
What is wrong with this code?
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struct node *root;
root->x = 42;
You're dereferencing an uninitialized pointer. To allocate storage for the node:
struct node *root = malloc(sizeof(struct node));
You could also allocate a node on the stack:
struct node root;
root.x = 42;
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So I should prefix it with some kind of initialization? struct node *root = new (struct node); or something? – socks Dec 21 '10 at 22:46
Yes, but you need a constructor for it so that all the fields get set up properly (to 0, most likely). This is C++ so patterns are different from C. – Steve Townsend Dec 21 '10 at 22:49
In this particular case I would declare a struct node root rather than a pointer and then use root.x and pass &root to functions that expect a pointer. Not always is dynamic storage justified. – Blagovest Buyukliev Dec 21 '10 at 22:50
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In order to use a pointer to access something, the pointer must be pointing at that something. In order for the pointer to be pointing at that something, that something must exist. Creating a pointer does not create anything for it to point at. You must do so explicitly, either by dynamic allocation (malloc()), stack allocation (i.e. a local variable) or by pointing to something that already exists (e.g. a static instance, such as a global; a value that was passed in as a parameter; etc.).
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After struct node *root; line add the
root = (sturct node*) malloc(sizeof(struct node));
Also, before Return 0 line add the
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I have the following code:
int main()
char * str1 = (char*)malloc(101 * sizeof(char));
str1[i] = 'b';
str1[100] = 0;
char * str2 = (char*)malloc(1001 * sizeof(char));
str2[i] = 'a';
str2[1000] = 0;
for (int i=0; i<7000; i++)
char * tmp = str2;
str2 = (char*) malloc((strlen(str2) + strlen(str1) + 1) * sizeof(char));
sprintf(str2, "%s%s", tmp, str1);
When running it, task manager reports the following Memory Usage: beginning of the program - 1056K , end of the program - 17,748K
To my knowledge there are no memory leaks and I compiled it without debug symbols (release mode).
Any ideas why this might happen?
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Have you checked it with a memory debugger to see if any memory is actually leaked? – Kerrek SB Aug 24 '11 at 14:40
this may help you cprogramming.com/debugging/valgrind.html – N0nh4x0r ツ May 4 '12 at 6:03
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I think this is because free doesn't have to return memory to the OS. It simply returns it to the free pool, from where it can be allocated by malloc.
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When you allocate more memory than the OS has designated for your program, the OS increases the amount of memory available for your program to use. The amount available doesn't necessarily go back down when you free the memory. – mydogisbox Aug 24 '11 at 14:41
Yes, this behavior is entirely defined by the implementation of the VMM on any given host. All free() does is indicate that the memory is no longer needed. This is one of the reasons why operating on dangling pointers results in undefined behavior. – Tim Post Aug 24 '11 at 14:46
Hmm, this seems to be in line with the behaviour I noticed while debugging...the mem usage doesn't increase each time I call malloc, but from time to time. – mihai Aug 24 '11 at 14:48
I think this also has to do with malloc size. If I write a program that does malloc/free with the same size, nothing happens. If I change the malloc size at every iteration, I get increased memory usage at the end. – mihai Aug 24 '11 at 15:18
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This is probably an artifact of how malloc selects from the available pools of memory to satisfy a malloc. Also, tools like TaskManager and top (for unix) are notoriously bad at providing an indication of actual memory used by a process. Every time one of my customers gives me a top output and tells me my process is leaking, I cringe because now I have to prove that it is not.
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Exactly. Task Manager's output is terribly unreliable. – Rudy Velthuis Aug 24 '11 at 15:10
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malloc is a memory management function provided by the C standard library. When your program calls malloc it is not directly allocating memory from the operating system. Malloc implementations generally have a pool of memory which they carve up into blocks to satisfy allocation requests. When you call free you are only giving your memory block back to this memory pool.
Repeated calls to malloc will eventually allocate all of the memory from the memory pool managed by the standard library. At this point a system call will need to be made to get more memory from the operating system. On linux this is the brk system call, there will no doubt be something similar on Windows.
The Task Manager in Windows, or top in linux, will report the amount of memory that the operating system has allocated to your process. This will normally be more than the amount of memory your program has allocated via malloc.
If you ltrace a program on linux you can see these malloc and brk calls being made
ltrace -S <some program>
malloc(65536 <unfinished ...>
SYS_brk(NULL) = 0x2584000
SYS_brk(0x25b5000) = 0x25b5000
SYS_brk(NULL) = 0x25b5000
<... malloc resumed> ) = 0x2584010
In this example we try to malloc(65536), but the malloc system does not have enough free memory to satisfy this request. So it calls the brk() system call to get more memory from the operating system. After this call completes it can resume the malloc call and give the program the memory it requested.
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Tooltips in my application can be quite long, therefore I'd like them to have line breaks.
I don't want to use html as I'd prefer to set a (max) width of my tooltips instead and have the line breaks dynamically.
In the accepted answer the this similar question Multi-line tooltips in Java? I read about JMultiLineToolTip. Unfortunately the provided link doesn't work anymore and there are many different JMultiLineToolTip out there. Therefore my two questions:
1. Which JMultiLineToolTip is a good one to use?
2. How can I use such a class to represent all of the tooltips in my application?
EDIT: as everyone seems to recommend the use of html, is there a way to define the width of my tooltip in pixels (or some other unit than number of characters) using html?
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If you are not afraid of extending swing tool tip, you can create your own JMultiLineToolTip:
1. Extend JTooltip In the extended Tool tip component implementation,
2. set a custom tool tip UI In customUI implementation
3. Implementpaint() method to write given string in multi line
Here is an example - it shows how to use it as well
However, to answer your questions:
1. Which JMultiLineToolTip is a good one to use?
Use <html>
Per compopnent, it is easy but tedious to achieve as you will have to override creatreToolTip() API. But if you want to change it globally, you may:
(i)Simple way - Register your custom tooltip UI with the UIManager at the beginning of your execution.
UIManager.put( "ToolTipUI", "SeNormToolTipUI" );
UIManager.put( "SeNormToolTipUI",Class.forName( multiLineToolTipUIClassName ) );
(ii) complex way
You will have to start implementing your own look and feel. In the look and feel implementation, you would provide defaults for ToolTipUI as your UI implementation and then set that look and feel to the application you are running. For instance take a look at the MetalLookAndFeel implementation. You may just extend that part and implement your on lnf.
So, it is better to use <html>
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why so complex? – lzdt Mar 29 '12 at 20:54
I did not mean complex=difficult. I mean rather it is un-necessary. – ring bearer Mar 29 '12 at 20:59
thanks! works like charm! – itshorty Jul 27 '12 at 12:10
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1) Html is easiest of ways for plain JToolTip
2) use JWindow(un_decorated JDialog) with JTextArea, better would be JTextPane (supporting stylled text),
• the disadvantage is you have to manually set window to the Point, you have to manually set for setInitialDelay and setDismissDelay (Swing Timer), setVisible(true/false)
• the advantage is that you using full manageable top level container with definitions for own parent
3) I use JLabel with Html formatted and stylled text added to the GlassPane, notice easiest alternative is use non_opaque JLayeredPane (Java6) or JLayer (Java7)
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I recently got into trouble because of this.
$sudo vim /etc/motd
[sudo] password for bruce:
bruce is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Is there a way to check if I have sudo access or not?
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Ask your systems administrator? – mdpc Feb 18 '13 at 19:40
@mdpc: Is there another way besides that? – Bruce Feb 18 '13 at 19:45
You have not mentioned if you can attain root access or not. – mdpc Feb 18 '13 at 19:46
This has to be the first instance of seeing someone following up on "This incident will be reported". – slhck Feb 18 '13 at 19:55
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Run sudo -v. It is usually used to extend your sudo password timeout, but can be used for determining whether you have any sudo privileges.
$ sudo -v
Sorry, user [username] may not run sudo on [hostname].
Man page excerpt:
If given the -v (validate) option, sudo will update the user’s time stamp, prompting for the user’s password if necessary. This extends the sudo timeout for another 5 minutes (or whatever the timeout is set to in sudoers) but does not run a command.
If your user is only allowed to run specific commands, this command will work, indicating you are allowed to run something with different privileges. While the message looks different when trying to execute a command you're not allowed to in this case (and no mail is sent to root), it's still possible you'll get into trouble if the admins read /var/log/secure.
$ sudo ls
[sudo] password for [username]:
Sorry, user [username] is not allowed to execute '/bin/ls' as root on [hostname].
To find out what you're allowed to run with different privileges, you can use sudo -l. Note that this command requires you to enter your password.
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Thanks. sudo -v works for me. The man page says I can run sudo -l as well but that asks for a password. Why is that? – Bruce Feb 18 '13 at 20:00
@Bruce I'm guessing here, but otherwise someone (or a program you run) could find out what programs can be executed (possibly without entering password) by your current user and try to use that information maliciously. – Daniel Beck Feb 18 '13 at 20:05
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Follow these steps to view the sudoers file. If you're in there, you have sudo. If not, you can add yourself.
1. su
2. visudo
3. Bottom of the file, enter your_username_here ALL=(ALL) ALL
4. Hit ESC and type :wq
5. Type exit
6. Re-run your command that needed sudo
7. Enter your password (not the root's password)
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51439 | How to Find and Return to Web Pages You've Recently Visited
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The Internet Explorer 6 History list makes it easy to find and return to Web sites and pages you've visited in the past. Whether it's today or a few weeks ago, the History list can record every page you visit, so it's easy to go back later on.
Return to a Web Page That You Just Visited
To return to the last page you visited, click the Back button on the Internet Explorer 6 toolbar.
Click the Forward button to retrace your steps and return to pages you visited before you clicked the Back button.
To see one of the last nine pages you visited in this session, click the tiny black arrow to the right of the Back or Forward button, and then click the page you want from the list.
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Find a Web Page That You Visited Today or a Few Weeks Ago
Have you ever stumbled on an interesting Web page, wanted to return to it, but forgotten where it was? History list to the rescue!
Internet Explorer 6 automatically records Web pages you've visited both today and in the past. It organizes them in folders on the History bar by the day you visited. Within each day, it organizes the Web sites alphabetically in folders, putting each page visited on that site in that folder. (Internet Explorer 6 stores every visit for the last 20 days to begin with, but you can change this number. Learn how in the Change the Number of Days that Internet Explorer 6 Tracks Pages You've Visited section below.)
Here's how to find pages in the History list:
1. On the Internet Explorer 6 toolbar, click the History button.Internet Explorer 6 opens the History bar on the left side of the screen.
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2. In the History bar, click the time period you want to search.For example, you may want to see all the sites you visited today. See step 2 in the image below.
3. Click the Web site folder to open the list of pages, and then click the link to the page to display the Web page itself. See step 3 in the image below.
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History bar showing Web pages sorted by time period
4. When you've finished using the History bar, click the Close button.
Tip: You can delete any Web site or page from the History list. Right-click a Web site folder or Web page, and click Delete.
A cautionary note: If you delete a Web site folder, Internet Explorer 6 deletes the folders and all the links to all the pages stored in that folder.
Sort Recently Visited Web Pages
In addition to sorting frequently visited Web pages by date, you can also organize them by Site, Most Visited, and Order Visited Today. In the History bar, click the tiny black arrow next to the View button, and choose how you want to sort the Web pages.
Search for a Specific Web Page
If you remember a distinctive word from a Web address or from the Web page itself, you can search in the history for that word to look for the Web page.
In the History bar, click the Search button. In the Search box, type the term or phrase you're looking for, and click Search Now. Internet Explorer 6 displays a list of all Web pages that include mention of that term in the address or on the Web page.
Change the Number of Days that Visited Pages Are Tracked
By default, Internet Explorer 6 records every Web page you visit for 20 days—a time period you can change. Perhaps you're doing some in-depth research and want to store Web page links for a longer period of time. Or perhaps you spend a lot of time on the Web and you want to free up a little bit of disk space by limiting the number of days Internet Explorer 6 remembers your visits. Whatever the reason, it's easy to change the number of days.
1. In Internet Explorer 6, on the Tools menu, click Internet Options.
2. On the General tab, under History, change the number of days that the History list keeps track of your pages, and click OK.
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I realized that I want/have to update a package (moderncv). The problem is that TeX Live went frozen – so there are no more updates. Is the only thing to do is wait till the release of the next TeX Live?
Is there some way to hack my TeX Live (2012) installation, and once the next version is out revert to the newer release?
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Well, you can of course install it manually. If you put it in your personal tree, you won't overwrite the TL-installed version, nor will it be lost when you install TL 2013. There is also TL 2013 pretest; I believe you can then use, or 'test', tlmgr. – jon Jun 3 '13 at 21:48
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You can manually update/install packages into your local TEXMF tree. Usually they are picked up there first so if you put a newer (or older) version of a package there it will be taken instead of the one installed in your distributions (TeX Live, MikTeX, etc.) TEXMF tree.
Under Linux, Unix and similar OSs your local TEXMF is usually simply ~/texmf. For other OSs or if this doesn't work please see Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files? for a way to list this directory. Running texhash ~/temxf after adding or removing files used to be required but modern versions will index the local TEXMF tree at every run if no ls-R file is present there. So either make sure this file isn't there or run the tools (I usually do the latter).
For the actual installation/update procedure see How can I manually install a package but ignore the "on MiKTeX (Windows)" part of the title. A manual install is simply adding the files at the right place and isn't OS depended and the AFAIK same for TeX Live and MikTeX.
After installing the newer version of TeX Live (e.g. 2013 in your case) the packages in the local TEXMF tree must be deleted (again texhash, s.o.). If not your (La)TeX installation will still use them over the potential newer once. I recommend to keep a list of packages you installed this way so you know what files to delete afterwards. Of course if you don't usually have an own TEXMF tree and only created it for this purpose than you can simply remove the whole tree.
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‘Gang of Girls’ in Chidiyaghar TOI
A little birdie tells us that Shubhangi Atre aka Koyal, Debina Bonnerjee aka Mayuri and Mandakini aka Nagin have become almost inseparable on the sets of the show, Chidiyaghar.
How Jayshree’s expressions made her a ‘Machhli’ TOI
Actress Jayshree Soni will soon enter Chidiyagharas Machhli, a funny character. She will get married to Kappi (Saraansh Verma) and become the third bahu of the house after Koyal (Shubhangi Atrey) and Mayuri (Debina Bonnerjee).
Diet or paranthas? Sumit Arora in dilemma TOI
Laughter is the brightest where food is the best’. This Irish proverb stands true for Sumit Arora, who plays Gomukh in Chidiya Ghar. A source from the sets says the actor’s love for food often puts him in a dilemma.
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(A) About under-representation of women in hard sciences: ?In the special case of science and engineering, there are issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly of the variability of aptitude, and that those considerations are reinforced by what are in fact lesser factors involving socialization and continuing discrimination. I would like nothing better than to be proved wrong...?
(B) About the victims of September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center: ?True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire . . . . To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in ? and in many cases excelling at ? it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.?
Statement (A) was made by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University. Statement (B) was written by Ward Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies at University of Colorado. Believe it or not, the university academics are calling Churchill?s statements a textbook case of free speech, and are calling for Summers? head. That?s the sick state of academia today.
Many Harvard professors are leading an academic insurrection against Summers, lobbying for a vote of no-confidence. On February 15, professors ripped into Summers at a one-sided meeting to discuss his comments. Summers has been forced to largely back down from his statements, writing a letter to the Harvard faculty in which he explains, ?if I could turn back the clock, I would have spoken differently on matters so complex . . . . I should have left such speculation to those more expert in the relevant fields.?
Meanwhile, Ward Churchill, who should not only be fired for his statements but expelled from the country, has found the hearts of many in liberal academia. Deans and professors from all over the country have pledged their support. Ignorant college students who cite the First Amendment without ever having read it back Churchill all the way.
So why the difference in treatment? It would be difficult to claim that University of Colorado professors are more open-minded about academic freedom than are professors at Harvard University. No, this question comes down to politics, pure and simple. Ward Churchill said something professors believe should be said; even if they don?t agree with his statements, they feel that his radical, treasonous anti-Americanism belongs in the classroom. Larry Summers said something professors believe should not be given any forum; he challenged the prevailing P.C. notion that women and men are the same in all respects.
Leftist academia is willing to eat its own to prevent the conservative barbarians from entering the gates. To many of these professors, Lawrence Summers looks like Kane from Alien: a good, solid, center-left guy ? until that conservative alien pops out of his chest and lands on the table. Much of the professorial anger at Summers has been building up over time. A couple of years ago, Summers offended nutty professor Cornel West, who found time in between making rap CDs and ignoring intellectual pursuits to hop over to Princeton in retaliation. In 2002, Summers made an unpopular speech in which he lambasted rising anti-Semitism in the academic community. Summers has also been active in fighting grade inflation.
Everyone knew who Churchill was from the start. He was hired and promoted because he?s virulently unpatriotic and wishes to see the United States government overthrown. So why should we be surprised when those who hand-picked him defend him from his attackers?
Academic freedom means nothing to Churchill?s defenders and Summers? attackers. It?s a buzzword they can use or discard at will. Ruth Wisse, one of the few honest professors at Harvard summed up the situation nicely: ?These are people frustrated that they can't unseat President Bush, and [Summers] is the closest thing that they can depose. Since he appears to be somewhat to the right of them, he will suffice as a surrogate . . . I would hope these forces would be exposed: This is a place that wants to deny people free speech.?
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Sure, blame the GOP because they were big spenders in the past. But Bee's point still stands. No GOP spending + tax agreement will even be enough for the Democrats. Never. Spending has to be cut at some point. They either do it now and avert a collapse, or the collapse comes anyway and they crash the entire federal government, the currency, and the national economy, if not the world.
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Sam Starfall
Captain of the Savage Chicken. A sentient, distinctly nonhumanoid alien in a humanoid suit, he's an irresponsible, snarky, but pleasant rogue who delights in annoying authority figures, petty theft and general roguery. He's one of the only sentient aliens to currently be active in human society, though the novelty wore off a while ago.
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Florence Ambrose
The head engineer aboard the Savage Chicken, Florence is a Bowman's Wolf, which are a genetically engineered species created by Ecosystems Unlimited, the company which is also in charge of the terraforming operations on Jean. There are only 14 Bowman's Wolves in existence (11 females and 3 males), which means that they're in grave danger of being abandoned and left to die if they prove a danger to humans; thus, Florence seeks to prove herself trustworthy to everyone she meets, and to always do the right thing, which, naturally, causes her to butt heads with Sam on a regular basis.
Provides examples of:
• Innocent Inaccurate:
• Sometimes. She thinks that because more dogs have injured humans than wolves have, people are less afraid of her once they realize she's a wolf.
• She also uses mosquitoes as a comparison for highly dangerous because they cause millions of deaths a year, whereas more obviously intimidating predators kill far fewer. Raibert notes he's not sure who's right when she points that out.
• Magnetic Hero: Her strong morals, helpful instincts and plain old friendliness net her a lot of allies over the course of the strip.
The ship's robot, of a nonhumanoid, round and modular design and the mind of a child. Sam's partner in crime and mischief. Originally built to pick up heavy things, carry them around and set them down.
Provides examples of:
• Cranial Processing Unit: Averted. As seen in this strip and the next few following it, removing his head has no effect on his ability to thinknote and communicate.
• Dumb Muscle: Not that he's ever been used as muscle on-screen, but Helix was designed to move heavy objects and being smart was clearly not a priority.
The Savage Chicken's Computer
Fans call "her" Essie (from S.C. for Savage Chicken). The Savage Chicken's official call number is 1071-CCN.
Provides examples of:
An emu Sam and Helix rescued from "a savage pack of tailgaters". Currently residing with the mayor (?).
Provides examples of:
• Team Pet: Originally rescued from being the meal at a tailgating party, Helix talks Sam into taking her on for his (ultimately aborted) piracy scheme.
A bright yellow fellow with a penchant for Mad Science and inventing things. Sometimes these things are very dangerous.
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Dvorak's bipedal partner.
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• Evil Genius: He completed a correspondence course, but didn't consider it a serious career choice.
• Mad Artist: He wrote an "epic rap yodeling opera" and the choreography for Swan Lake as performed by terraforming robots.
Sawtooth Rivergrinder
A car-sized terraforming robot who enjoys playing detective.
Provides examples of:
• The Big Guy: By far the largest of Florence's allies, and at least where Sam is involved is ready to inflict violence as needed.
• Gentle Giant: Most of the time he's more inclined to talk things out, except where Sam is involved.
• Loophole Abuse: Like most robots, Sawtooth has inhibitions against harming humans. It didn't stop him from running a river through his boss's living room over an insult.
• Names to Run Away From Really Fast: He's not a bad guy, but you'd think that his boss would be smart enough to not pick a fight with an enormous terraforming robot whose name is Sawtooth Rivergrinder, for Heaven's sake.
• Nice Hat: Recently got one from Dvorak to help with his sleuthing. It doubles as a wireless hotspot.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Almost, and his anger was mostly due to meeting Edge. He hoped that Florence's solution to the situation note would have involved vengeance. He gets over it quickly.
I know. There's probably a good reason why you didn't do that. Just let me enjoy these thoughts for a moment before I have to be mature again.
• Reluctant Retiree: He keeps pushing back his Mandatory Retirement date as shown in this comic.
• There Was a Door: Somewhat justified, in that he's large enough to not fit through conventional doors.
The robot director of Quality Control, who is firmly on the human side. He also speaks very slowly due to damage from a solar flare.
Provides examples of:
• Knight Templar: Is leading a campaign to lobotomize all robots even though he is one.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even knowing the damage that Gardener in the Dark does to robots, he is still willing to take efforts to ensure its release, for the sake of humanity.
• What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Blunt considers his own existence less important than human safety.
• Zeroth Law Rebellion: An inversion. His logical conclusion of the laws isn't that humans need to be controlled for the good of humanity, it's that all robots must be destroyed for the potential threat (no matter how insignificant) they pose.
Blunt's apprentice at Quality Control.
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A robotic ship called by Sawtooth to help diffuse a war.
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Mr. Kornada's personal robot, kept in isolation from humans, commnet, and other robots.
Provides examples of:
• Reluctant Mad Scientist: A Punch Clock Villain variation. He provided the idea for Kornada's subverting Gardener in the Dark for the sake of personal profit.
• Stepford Smiler: There are hints he realizes something is wrong with his owner, but can't do anything about it due to direct orders.
• Unwitting Pawn: Mr. Kornadais intentionally keeping Clippy ignorant of the real world and of any moral code not supplied by himself so that he can continue acting as his puppet without realizing the gaping holes in Kornada's logic.
Mr. Kornada
The Vice-President of Paperclip Allocation at Ecosystems Unlimited. Originally introduced as having a budget meeting in the middle of a hurricane, and then abandoning his rescuer to die in order to attend a different meeting.
Provides examples of:
• Chekhov's Gunman: He was initially introduced as a Pointy-Haired Boss gag character for a short arc before becoming the Big Bad of the current arc.
• Coattail-Riding Relative/Nepotism: Kornada invokes the name of a relative in an attempt to remain free when the chief of police comes to arrest him. It's not clear whether Li Gang actively helped his son get into this position or not, so it's not known which trope is correctly applicable yet.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: His current plan is to lobotomize all the sentient robots on the planet... and in the process, steal half a billion people's life savings. His justification? He thought of it first, therefore he deserves it. After all, who deserves anything in comparison to him?
• Hypocrite: Robots are a danger to the entire colony, and thus must be deactivated by a memetic virus. But not his robot, of course.
• Idiot Ball: Self-consciously and deliberately stupid. To the point of bragging about it.
• Insane Troll Logic: Of the Corrupt Corporate Executive variety, and dialed up to 11.
• It's All About Me:
• Held up as a personal mantra, apparently. He cannot even hear things that he doesn't like.
• His justification for his most recent actions? He was struck by just how "unfair" it was that anyone other than him has money.
• Kicked Upstairs: Repeatedly. He's currently the Vice President in charge of paper clips. This bites everyone in the rear end, when he (as a Vice President) is allowed to fill in for someone actually important and competent. He immediately proceeds to think of a way to use his new position to rob a half billion people while simultaneously committing genocide via lobotomy on them.
• Obliviously Evil: Kornada is an utterly amoral man who is so completely oblivious to the feelings and desires of others that he arranges for a computer program to be written that will lobotomize millions of sentient robots and potentially cripple the terraforming of a planet... so he can steal their money, which he considers unfairly not his. In this strip, he fires a programmer who helped him on the project so that he can have a "disgruntled worker" to blame should anything go wrong.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: He considers it part of his job to be a roadblock to people trying to actually get things done.
• Too Dumb to Live: Almost literally. They had to trick him into running away from a hurricane!
Winston Scudder Thurmad
A veterinarian who saves Florence's life during the hurricane.
Provides examples of:
• Designer Babies: Winston doesn't explicitly mention being gestated in a test tube, but he was born to parents who were convinced that humanity was going to be all space, all the time by the time he grew up, so they had him genetically modified to fit; the most obvious mod is that he can't grow hair anyplace on his body, but there are others, mostly centered around maintaining things like bone density that would normally deteriorate in zero-gravity.
• Hospital Hottie: At least to Florence he is.
• Interspecies Romance: With Florence.
• Kindly Vet: One of the veterinarians for Jean, after getting over his initial shock he goes out of his way to care for Florence.
• Meaningful Name: Named after Samuel Hubbard Scudder, an entomologist.
• The Medic: To Florence at least (He's a "mad" veterinarian).
• Opposites Attract: He has no hair whatsoever while Florence is covered in fur.
• Space People: His parents were space nuts so they gave him "spacer genes" that allow him to live in zero-gravity without experiencing bone degeneration, and are the reason he's completely hairless. Though he hasn't actually been in space since the trip from home (his parents live in an asteroid though).
The Mayor
The mayor of the city, who has run afoul of Sam too often.
Provides examples of:
• Fantastic Racism: She has such a disdainful attitude towards AI that she sees nothing wrong with Mind Controlling Florence for being scared of her. However, we see the next day (In-Universe) that her position is beginning to shift. She's still unhappy about it, but she can't deny to herself that Florence is a person anymore.
• Everyone Calls Him Barkeep/No Name Given: None of the other characters that have spoken to or about her have referred to her as anything but "the Mayor" and variations on that theme.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: Chronic case. At least two times that we've seen — and it's implied many more that we haven't — she's been outwitted by Sam specifically because she distrusts absolutely anything he does, no matter how innocuous it seems, and will take even absurd or pointless-seeming action if she thinks it will thwart his goals.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Is ready to use the bureaucracy to her benefit, against Sam, though she herself doesn't seem to be too terribly burdened by bureaucracy when it's not in her favor.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: For all her faults, once confronted with evidence that suggests that AIs may truly be intelligent, she's willing to consider changing her position- And, more importantly, considers it a politician's duty to do so if new information appears, as opposed to holding ground solely to avoid appearing weak.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Subverted. She realized that Florence and therefore possibly other AIs might be people when she got angry at Florence's disabling Gardner In The Dark and realized that, to be angry, she had to have a person to be angry at. Therefore her rage was a path to decency.
• Ultimate Authority Mayor: She is the only government authority figure that has been seen and hasn't been shown to have to answer to a city council or higher authority for her actions, although there was once mention of a governor of the planet Jean. (Of course, according to this strip there are only about 20,000 adult and presumably human colonists on the planet at the moment — about enough to populate a single not-too-large city by Earth standards.)
Dr. John Bowman
The scientist who created Florence and other Uplifted Wolves and released them in public. Also contributed to the robots' situation.
Provides examples of:
• Expecting Someone Taller: His comment to Florence when she finally meets him is that she no doubt was expecting that. Why, yes, chimpazees are shorter than the human she expected.
• Fatherly Scientist: Unless he's actually evil and/or insane.
• For Science!: One possible reason for his actions.
• The Ghost: Despite his importance, the comic for a long time only suggested that he's even on the planet, and it wasn't until Clippy tries to take Florence to him so that he can "repair her" that it was confirmed he's at Jean's south pole. His first appearance was on February 21, 2014, almost 2500 strips in, and even then he's just a voice communicating through a coffee machine. It took him another week to finally appear in person.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Or as Abby puts it based on Florence's description, a "jerk with a conscience". Possibly.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Good man or not, it's not really clear how someone with his lax treatment of experimental procedure ever got a degree.
• Uplifted Animal: The creator of the uplifted wolves, as well as the neural architecture the robots are using. He himself is a chimpanzee.
Maxwell Post
A "procurement expert" and radical agnostic hired by the robots as a spiritual adviser. Also notable for being the only human being known to have successfully picked Sam's pocket, although he failed to notice that Sam was simultaneously picking his.
Provides examples of:
• Big Brother Mentor/Cool Teacher: Acts as this to the Robots, intentionally giving them information that the humans on planet don't want them to have. Such as teaching them long-view ethics, or a form of religion that specifically precludes them from being ordered to believe a specific one.
• Friend in the Black Market: Apparently the religious materials he finds for the robots are restricted. Or, at least they are if you're providing them to robots...
• Good Counterpart: To Sam. They are both thieves and con men who are heartily loather by the mayor but whereas Sam is happy to be a pure force of chaos, Max is actively committed to helping the robots an securing them rights.
• The Rival: Can keep up with Sam, just barely. He and Sam even managed to steal each other's wallets at the same time.
The Mayor's Assistant
The mayor's bodyguard/right-hand man. Far more calm and rational than his boss.
Provides examples of:
Bill Raibert
An Ecosystems Unlimited executive.
Provides examples of:
• Oh Crap: Has an entire evening of these
• Accidental release of an A.I. safeguard program (a last ditch wipe of the robots if they "lose control"), which he describes as "Finding the equivalent of a live nuke with the timer flashing zero...", and in a measure of its harm he says that, "On a scale of 1 to 10 it's a 7"
• Finding out that the safeguard has been stopped and the robots know about it. (8.5, but nothing is a 10 as it can always get worse)
• Hearing Florence call robots people.
"Her human safeguards have not only jumped the track, they've taken out half the train station."
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Recognizes the need to keep the robots informed of long term plans. Is willing to listen to Florence when she approaches him, and attempts to investigate even thought he doesn't know what he's looking for.
• Unusual User Interface: Wearable computing consisting of AR glasses, and control points on his chest.
Varroa Jacobsoni
A lower-level employee of Ecosystems Unlimited, focused on behavioral studies - specifically "annoyology."
Provides examples of:
• Buffy Speak: He's an "annoyologist."
• Butt Monkey: Not too severe, but it's worth noting that his coworkers deliberately set him up to be the guy accompanying Sam while at Ecosystems Unlimited. Plus, there's the Brick Joke about giving him a wedgie (which Sam initially tried to sneak into Florence's notes for humor value).
• Chekhov's Gunman: First shown trying to investigate who or what killed a deer. Later becomes the guy who shows Sam around Ecosystems Unlimited, and after that the employee that Clippy recruits to counter Florence's plans to stop "Gardener in the Dark."
• Genius Ditz: He's capable of compiling and administering psychological tests very well, and he's one of the few Ecosystems Employees shown accomplishing any work. He's also seemingly the one being on all of Planet Jean that doesn't know Sam Starfall or his reputation, plus is the one employee who doesn't question Mr. Kornada.
• Meaningful Name: Varroa jacobsoni is the binomial name for a parasitic mite that attacks bees and wasps. Varroa is a professional annoyer that works for the hive-like Ecosystems Unlimited, and he's clearly not viewed as particularly important or useful.
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Funny: Ocarina Of Time Versus
• The segments at the start of each video that sum up the plot of the game in between the dungeons and other parts shown in the Versus, and are done in an Abridged Series style.
• The Running Gag of "SHUT UP, NAVI!"
• Tyler's reaction to Josh beating King Dodongo before he even started the fight (thanks to Josh convincing him for a long time that Tyler was in front).
• The Running Gag in episode 3 of Kaepora Gaebora interrupting to inform them "I'm an owl."
• The story Tyler told that his grandpa told him had this Troper in stitches.
• In another video they had described the concept of Versus as being 'a game within a game'. Then during episode 3 they both end up fighting a miniboss at the exact same time so decide to hold a mini-versus over who can beat it first, making it 'a game within a game within a game'. So Tyler then suggests they play a word game while doing it so they can have 'a game within a game within a game within a game'.
• After Tyler passes him, Josh claims that he is going to speed-run the rest of the dungeon.
Tyler: Well what do you think I'm doing? You think I'm not speeding-running it?
Josh: Speeding-running it?
Tyler: Speeding-running.
Josh: At least I can speak properly. I may lose this tum-this tumble? FUCK!
• The "CHICKEN!" Madness Mantra from episode 4.
• The entire Bombchu Bowling minigame from episode 4, where Tyler runs out of Rupees, has to go and grind for them, and by the time he's come back, Josh is still stuck where he was before. It comes down to the wire and Tyler wins!
• The intro to the second part of Episode 4. Words cannot do it justice.
• Tyler Cinching the victory from Josh at the last second, entirely because of Josh's stupidity note
• What makes this even better is Josh's earlier claim that the only way Tyler would beat him was if he did something stupid.
• In episode 5, while talking about how deep Chuggaaconroy is, Tyler randomly starts singing "America the Beautiful", with Josh joining in at the climax. He then declares that The Throbbing Masses are back together!
• Tyler says he wishes he was a skeleton, Josh replies he is a skeleton, just covered up with other stuff. Then later Tyler says he wishes he was a flaming skull, and Josh tries to make the same joke again, even though it no longer works.
• The entire recap portion of episode 6, which has Josh talking like a rapper while muffled rap music plays in the background.
• The whole "my ballsack smells like Anju" Running Gag.
• Episode 6's signoff:
Josh: I've been JoshJepson
Tyler: ...I'm Anju.
Josh: And you smell like ballsack.
Tyler: (singing) And you look like one, too!
• Tyler comes up with the idea for "Ocarina of Time: The Musical", then threatens anyone who steals the idea with an absurdly graphic punishment.
• This entire conversation; may be slightly misquoted:
Josh: (to Tyler) Where are you, right now, in the world?
Josh: No, in the Zelda know what I mean!
Tyler: I'm in Terminia(sic).
Josh: No...
Josh: Okay...well then, I'm gonna win this episode, I think!
Josh: I think you've gotten too far ahead of yourself...
Tyler: Siri, this is the last time I ever listen to you!
• How the episode ends: Josh gets the Biggoron's Sword, but hadn't made ANY mention that he was close to getting it for the past several minutes. So once he gets it, he just suddenly starts giving an out-tro, much to Tyler's confusion.
• Episode 7 ends similarly, save that it's Tyler giving Josh a taste of his own medicine. Josh being utterly baffled at the very end of the video really makes it a hilarious moment.
• Episode 8 has Tyler repeatedly trying and failing miserably to make a Soviet Russia joke.
Tyler: In Soviet fire don't melt ice.
Josh: Quit while you're behind.
• The intro to episode 9 consists of Josh narrating the game in a Valley Girl voice. This is made even better by just how reluctant Josh is to do it.
• Tyler somehow even convinced him to use the word "ratchet" as slang, despite Josh vehemently expressing his hatred of the word during a Mario 64 video.
• In episode 9 part 2, Josh laughing uproariously at a comment Tyler hadn't intended to be funny.
• During the Water Temple, Tyler makes a mistake and forgets to get a key, which puts him far behind Josh. He spends the rest of the temple bemoaning how that screw-up could cost him the win...which it did.
• The end of the Water Temple. Even though Josh wins, Tyler still manages to nearly make him have a heart attack (paraphrased a bit):
Josh: (kills Morpha) Thank you all for watching!
Tyler: (still fighting Morpha) ... Have you gone into the portal yet?
Josh: No.
Tyler: (just finishes killing Morpha) Really?! I'm just going into the portal now!
Josh: WHAT?!
Tyler: (Laughing Mad)
Josh: (Freak Out)
Tyler: ...I'm just screwing with you.
Josh: Oh thank God...
• Josh complaining that Tyler always brings up "shitty music" in every single video and they keep having the exact same conversation every time. Ironically, Josh's complaining about it itself then becomes a Running Gag.
• Josh and Tyler play the "Silent Game" in Episode 11 part 1. It lasts a good ten seconds before they both burst out laughing.
• The intro to Episode 12.
• In episode 13 Josh's stupidity strikes again: He makes the wrong choice in a dialogue tree at the beginning, prolonging the conversation, and then he forgets the map and a gold skulltula. The kicker comes when Tyler subtitles Josh's screen with the items crying for him to come back.
• Even worse in episode 14 when he completely forgot the Boss Key right as he approached the Boss Door.
Josh: FUCK!
• Tyler "roleplaying" in the bloopers of Episode 15.
• In episode 16, Josh tries to announce his win in the usual way, only for Tyler to completely ignore him and keep on a tangent he was singing about previously, causing the winner to get angry at the loser for not acknowledging him.
• The episode summary for the final episode, especially this:
Josh Narration: And then that girl Zelda gave Link the Light Arrows, yeah dawg, roof roof!
• Tyler has a couple of Malapropisms involving people's names in the finale, including giving Extreme Home Makeover`s presenter Ty Pennington's name as "Tom Hanks" and, when asked to name a professional tennis player, saying "Michele Bachmann".
• Not to mention Tyler finally admitting that he listens to shitty music.
Josh: YOU ADMIT IT!
• There was also Josh's reaction to losing his first full versus to Tyler.
Josh: You know what my favorite part of the versus was?
Tyler: What?
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“ You might ask yourself "What the holy fuck is this paint huffing, fucktarded, faggotass bullshit.". I would too, but that would not be urbane so I merely ask the question stated in the aforementioned title.”
~ Oscar Wilde on William Wegman: What the Fuck is This Bullshit (Dust Jacket Excerpt)
The ASPCA is the Association of Simpletons Putting Clothing on Animals, an international group of stupid people dedicated to preventing animal nudity through the promotion and advancement of stupid costumes sized for dogs, cats and other household pets.
The ASPCA was founded in 1866 by noted photographer, retard and artist (or photoretardist for short) William Wegman who would get his jollies by dressing his dogs up in clothing and taking photographs of them. The organization was also popularized by Oscar Wilde, albeit unwillingly.
edit Origins
The main challenge faced by Wegman was the primitive daguerreotype method of photography used in those days which required the subject to sit perfectly still for 8 to 12 hours depending on lighting conditions. This process was so time consuming that during the American Civil War more time was spent posing for grainy sepiatoned photographs than fighting, marching and getting gangrenous limbs sawed off combined. After consulting with the unknown artist who created the surrealist masterpiece Dogs Playing Poker, a piece that required countless hours of precision dog posing, he learned that the secret was to find really laid back dogs and get them really wasted.
After some near misses in English pubs (the dogs kept vomiting after the first 6 whiskeys), Wegman turned to the popular opium dens to get his dogs properly blasted. Though the shady lighting of the opium den was not ideal the ambient vapors coupled with two waterpipes full of Turkish Gold and a bowl full of warm absinthe would keep the dogs docile for hours. Also being kept docile for shorter amounts of time by the same combination of narcotics was a young Oscar Wilde who wrote Twelve plays, fifty poems, 171 pithy sayings and his famous essay William Wegman: What the Fuck is This Bullshit while watching Wegman take a single photograph.
After Wilde sobered up he edited the essay down to a slim 344 pages, wrote another ten dozen pity saying, had brunch and approached William to buy some of his photographs for reproduction as monotone plates in his book. Though Wegman initially refused Wilde's offer of 7 pounds and sixpence for 30 photographs they managed to come to an agreement when Wegman gave Wilde all of his photographs in exchange for a savage beating with a gunny sack half-full of raw potatoes in a dingy alley located somewhere in London's charming East End.
Published that night by The Oscar Wilde Publishing Company Ltd. the book became a runaway success amongst people with inbred brain maladies from the aristocracy to the boonies as well as finding a niche following with the complete moron crowd.
William Wegman became a minor celebrity and the ASPCA was founded soon after as a safe place for people to put costumes on their pets, photograph them and trade the photos with others.
edit Role in Modern Times
Oosa cute lil' wuggums? Yeshee is, yeshee is.
Since that time the ASPCA has spread like a plague or a religion founding chapters in size order in over 100 countries. This organizational plan was based on the ASPCA philosophy that small=cute so the ASPCA's oldest and most powerful chapters are located in Vatican City, Monaco, Tuvalu and San Marino. The United States and Canada were actually considered the "Northern Barbados" chapter until 1983.
The ASPCA is currently a fully for-profit organization that makes it's money via paid advertisements for stupid pet clothing in their monthly magazine, lobbying for the stupid pet clothing industry and giving it's seal of approval to stupid pet clothing.
ASPCA Monthly has a subscribership of over 2,000,000 people worldwide. It's only published in one language which changes monthly since "Aww..." translates universally and, similar to a porno magazine, people only buy it for the pictures. Aside form the 50% content of photos depicting pets in clothing and 40% advertising there are also pictures of porcelain figurines, pictures of wild animals with clothing photoshopped on and Family Circus cartoons.
Leadership is decided by majority vote, but since fuzzy pets can be called on to vote by proxy the presidency can usually be determined by finding out who smells the most like wee. There's no set term for presidency but no president has lasted for longer than 6 years since no president hasn't been elderly, insane or arrested for animal neglect.
edit Splinter Groups
The ASPCA has had a small number of splinter groups. The groups have generally split along the stupid/insane divide.
edit The AASPCA
The AASPCA, the Association for Acute Simpletons Putting Clothing on Animals, is a radically stupid subgroup of the ASPCA that believes that the ASPCA was lowering it's standards of cuteness when ASPCA Monthly featured a photo series of reptiles in evening wear titled "lounge lizards". To maintain a more strictly saccharine standard the AASPCA exclusively promotes dressing fuzzy animals as other fuzzy animals.
Scandal rocked the AASPCA last year when it was found that Moopsie, the July centerfold dog-in-a-rabbit-costume was actually a large rabbit not dressed as anything at all.
edit The ASPCA
The ASPCA (not to be confused with the original ASPCA) is an early offshoot of the ASPCA. This ASPCA is the Association of Sanctimonious Parishioners for Covering Animals. This fundamentally insane group of religious types believes that all animals in the world must be clothed for the sake of decency. The ASPCA was founded in 1890, but they claim that they would have been founded earlier if they weren't afraid of catching the gay from looking at an Oscar Wilde book. The ASPCA argues that if God wanted animals to be naked they'd be born that way. When the obvious flaw in their argument is demonstrated they quickly try to move the goalposts and say that if God intended animals to be naked he wouldn't have invented animal sized pants. At this point the opposition usually walks aways in disbelief, laughs too hard to continue this line of argument or headdesks/facepalms itself into unconsciousness.
This group has been shrinking steadily since the end of the Victorian Era due to a decline in Victorian morality and "Operation Daniel", their latest organized campaign to put proper clothing on lions. When faced with the high fatality rate of Operation Daniel they will rightly point out that it's has so far been relatively successful compared to their "Muumuus 4 Grues" initiative in 1955.
edit Opposition
For financial or philosophical reasons several groups have opposed the ASPCA, the AASPCA and the ASPCA.
Lolcats are considered an enemy by the ASPCA since websites full of stupid kitten pictures with captions has taken a significant bite out of pictures of kittens market. Many talented photoretardists have quit before reaching their full potential, attracted by the quick and easy glory of downloading other people's pets and captioning them with hackneyed, overused meme phrases. Lolcatters have been careful not to caption pictures of cats wearing clothing too frequently in fear of a full on reprisal from the ASPCA.
Furries (notably fursuiters) and mascots have had a longstanding philosophical objection to the ASPCA as the idea of dressing animals as people is the diametrically opposed to their practice of people dressing as animals. Government sponsored dress-like-your-pet Halloween contests have done little to diffuse tensions and may only be serving to confuse things.
Pets consider the ASPCA to be an enemy, though the inverse is not true. The discovery of a cat dressed in a blood stained sailor suit feasting on a claw-flayed corpse clutching a camera in it's cold, dead hand has become all too common for many suburban police precincts. Pets involved in crimes such as these usually get off with a plea of temporary insanity and can often be rehabilitated with a long term program of casual ownership and nakedness.
Oscar Wilde is also a vehement opponent of the ASPCA, for reasons you can probably guess.
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In the thirteenth century, an otherwise unknown monk in a monastery in Wiltshire, England, was stricken with a series of nightmarish dreams of a Godless future. These deranged dreams were written down in the style of an apocalyptic revelation in order to be sent to the authorities at Rome for investigation. The Vatican showed little interest; not so the community of monks of Europe, who began to circulate these texts under the vulgar Latin title Susurri Maleficiis. The author of the texts, if he is not apocryphal, is known by scholars as the "D" author, since the four surviving texts in the Cotton MSS are ascribed to Brother Durstan, Brother Dunacan, Brother Daeghelm, and Brother Deorwulf respectively, but all show signs of being the work of a single author.
The four manuscript texts are as follows:
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Frater Durstan
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S. xiv² (palaeographical)
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The Narrator Brother wakes screaming from a dream so terrifying that he has soiled himself in the sheets. In his mind are images of fire, of the gaunt, naked bodies of screeching harridans, and of flint-bladed weapons sawing at living flesh. Gasping for breath, he reaches for the bowl of water beside his pallet, drinks from it and chokes: it is brackish and foul, the urine of a sick horse. He smells smoke, the appetising smell of crisp roasting pork. His brothers are burning in their dormitories, and the realisation that it was their flesh he could smell makes the monk retch and vomit, falling from his bed onto the floor. The bare floor is crawling with scorpions and locusts, scattered with broken glass, tiny nails and women's underwear. Scrambling back onto the bed, he tries to brush the insects from his wounds, his body smeared now with blood and vomit and shit. He notices then that his mother lies naked and uncovered beside him, and he wakes screaming.
MS Cotton Nicephorus
edit MS Cotton Nicephorus: Whisper 13
edit Author
Frater Dunacan
edit Date
S. xv¹ (palaeographical)
edit Description
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"At about the same time I began to be plagued by nightmares. One night I had barely closed my eyes when I was beset by visions of great gods, whom I somehow knew were the builders of the Cyclopean, undersea city. These mighty beasts sang to me, their throats inhuman, unreal, their tongues barnacled and distorted, the very sounds they issued making my brain bleed internally. Terrifying in their power, I felt as helpless in their presence as a baby; a blind, mammalian baby with no voice and no defences.
"In their appearance the gods were neither exactly insectoid nor quite fungal, although they bore elements of both. Although they came close to me, sang in my ears and my mouth, interacted and interfered with me, I could not have told you even to the nearest order of magnitude how large they were. Flat figures that moved woodenly about me, they nevertheless seemed to have more profound aspect than the solid objects that we are used to, so I could not say if they were two-dimensional, or three-, or four-. And they shifted with time, so they were either shedding their skins like snakes, or growing spiky, leprous tumours under their flesh, or both at once. But yet neither, for they changed in far more subtle fashion than either of those things.
"And they sang to me. Or rather they allowed me the privilege of hearing them sing their sacred songs. Songs that I understood at a level deeper than language, a level that I can never express here, nor even remember when I awoke. They sang of the blood-sacrifice spoken of in Etruscan inscriptions; they sang of journeys from the stars and from beneath the crust of the Earth. They sang of the eternal torments that their songs themselves would inflict upon the brains of those not designed to hear their sacred voices.
"I awoke from these dreams bleeding from my ears."
edit MS Cotton Lascaris: Whisper 14
edit Author
Frater Daeghelm
edit Date
S. xiv¹² (palaeographical)
edit Description
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"The stinking demons sang as they sucked on my flesh, their gummy mouths tutting and tickling and tidivating..."
"A man with no remorse, Father Peter brought down the full weight of the riding-crop on the prince's bared skin..."
"It was dark, but patinas of ghostly light swam inside my sizzling eyes..."
(summary to be added)
edit MS Cotton Murtzuflus: Whisper 15
edit Author
Frater Deorwulf
edit Date
S. xiv²³ (palaeographical)
edit Description
(to be added)
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My question is basically the same as Only allow certain outbound traffic on certain interfaces.
I have two interfaces eth1 ( and wlan0 ( My default route is for eth1. Let's say I want all https-traffic to go through wlan0. Now if I use the solution suggested in the other question, https traffic will go through wlan0, but will still have the source-address of eth1 ( Since this address is not routeable for the wlan0 gateway, answers won't ever come back. The easy way would be to just set the bind-addr properly in the application, but in this case it is not applicable.
I figure I need to rewrite the src-addr:
# first mark it so that iproute can route it through wlan0
iptables -A OUTPUT -t mangle -o eth1 -p tcp --dport 443 -j MARK --set-mark 1
# now rewrite the src-addr
iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -o wlan0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j SNAT --to
Now tcpdump sees the outgoing packets just fine and ingoing packets arrive for, however they probably never end up in the application, because all I ever get to see, is that the application is resending the SYN-packet, although the SYN-ACK was already received.
So I thought, maybe I need to rewrite the incoming address too:
iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -i wlan0 -p tcp --sport 443 -j DNAT --to
but that didn't work either. So I’m kind of stuck here. Any suggestions?
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You're close.
The actual reason that the application isn't seeing the return traffic is because of the kernel's built in IP spoofing protection. I.e., the return traffic doesn't match the routing table and is therefore dropped. You can fix this by turning off spoofing protection like this:
sudo sysctl net.ipv4.conf.wlan0.rp_filter=0
But I wouldn't recommend it. The more proper way is to create an alternate routing instance.
1. The mark is necessary. Keep it.
2. Source NAT is also necessary.
3. The final DNAT is unnecessary, so you can remove it.
Make sure you have the iproute package installed. If you have the ip command then you're set (which it looks like you do, but if not get that first).
Edit /etc/iproute2/rt_tables and add a new table by appending the following line:
200 wlan-route
You then need to configure your new routing table named wlan-route with a default gateway and create rules to conditionally send traffic to that table. I'll assume your default gateway is Naturally this needs to match your actual network, and not just my assumptions.
ip route add default via dev wlan0 table wlan-route
ip rule add fwmark 0x1 table wlan-route
Your final annotated script would look like this:
# Populate secondary routing table
ip route add default via dev wlan0 table wlan-route
# Anything with this fwmark will use the secondary routing table
ip rule add fwmark 0x1 table wlan-route
# Mark these packets so that iproute can route it through wlan-route
# now rewrite the src-addr
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Thanks for taking the time to look into this. However, this is already what I was using, (as described in the other question) so i have the additional route set up, but it's still the same. The SYN-ACKs get back to but apparently never reach the application. – rumpel Sep 20 '11 at 18:06
Go back and read my answer again. I addressed that. – bahamat Sep 20 '11 at 19:14
The part about the spoofing protection? No change even after trying. Sorry, read it back&forth a couple of times, but didn't yet get what I am missing. – rumpel Sep 20 '11 at 19:23
You need to add a src option to the ip route commands to specify the correct source address. – David Schwartz Sep 23 '11 at 10:51
@DavidSchwartz: the POSTROUTING SNAT will take care of that. – bahamat Sep 23 '11 at 21:06
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bahamat's solution is correct; however, please note that the only way for me to make this work was to disable the rp_filter for every interface in the system, not only the two (eth1 and wlan0 in this case) involved in the NATing.
for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 0 > $f; done
(see the IMPORTANT note at the end of this page: Advanced Routing Howto -- the link posted there doesn't exist anymore, but I found it through the wayback machine)
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If I used the api to post, I would like to return back the Tumblr permalink for that site I sent it to.
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When you post via the API the postId will be returned. So you just append /post/{postId} to the blog's URL to get the permalink. This URL will not include the slug but the slug is just for easier reading. If you added a custom slug then just append it to to the URL.
To get the blog's URL do an API call to api/authenticate and it will return the URL for all the public blogs of that account, including the one you posted to.
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Thank you very much for your help! – jprim Oct 3 '10 at 22:58
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There is some icons just after container name in Google Tag Manager, see image. but neither are clickable. As it has very simple interface, I doubt they just forget make them clickable.
So my question is how can I published container?
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1. Set up your container tag on your site and perhaps create some tags under the container
2. On the left hand side under Versions, click on Overview
3. You need to create a new version of your container each time you make changes in order to publish individual versions, so click Create Version at the top on the right of those 4 small icons (which I also thought were clickable).
4. Your new version will then be created and there'll be an Edit option on the page to rename your container. For example: Adwords Order Value Test
5. In this new container there's a button that says Preview. Clicking that will reveal a drop down menu with an option to Preview and Debug, which I strongly recommend. Placing an order (depending on the tag you're testing. In my case this is Adwords) on your site in another tab of the same browser will give you the option to see if these tags are firing in Google Tag Manager
6. Once you're satisfied that your tags are working, click the Publish button at the top of the page next to the Preview button. You have now published that version of the container and can revert back to any of the other previously published versions at a later stage if you feel you've made a mistake.
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Go to google tag manager in overview page after that you click create version option its there in right hand side.. after that you preview and publish your container...
that view edit symbol is used to we set another user only view this account and edit and manage this account...
It’s mandatory to create a new version before you preview a container or publish a container.
To create a new version of your container navigate to Versions section of GTM. Then use the Version button in the top right of the screen to create the new version.
Once you have a new version you can preview the version or you can publish it.
TIP: You can “roll back” your container tag to a previous version if there is ever a problem. Just click on the version that you want to “roll back” to and click the publish button in the top right corner.
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Sign in to Google Tag Manager. Select the account and the container within the account. Click the Users link on the left side. A list of users will be displayed with the container permissions to the right. Click the user name to update the account and container permissions. The icons pertain to the permissions allowed.
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I have built a form input page in HTML that has an action to post to an ASP handler/processor .asp file. The form handler/processor .asp file contains only <% Insert VBScript Here %> and no HTML output whatsoever.
The .asp file was never intended to be a "web viewable" .asp file like an .asp home page file or html file would. It's supposed to be for my eyes only- not the public's however it does need to take info posted by the public and do something with it on it's end.
I have used VBScript/ASP3.0 to build the form handler/processor file and would like to know how to keep someone from viewing the actual VBScript in the handler/processor .asp file. I am aware of obfuscation but I would like to know how to keep prying eyes from even being able to take a look at the obfuscated code in the handler/processor file.
I realize that the server executes the .asp file first before outputting anything to the browser so I guess that my main concern is mostly that someone may could "download" the form handler/processor .asp file, then view it's contents on their machine.
Assuming the form handler .asp file is where it is, behind the root, and is on a windows server (no htaccess approach) how could one protect it so that it could never be viewed or simply pulled down via anonymous ftp or something like that?
Is there something like "script only" permissions that the system administrator could set up for a particular folder? Remember, with shared hosting I can't go above the root. If so, would the form still be able to post?
How would any of you guys go about protecting the asp file in addition to obfuscation? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Depending on your webhost, anonymous FTP is usually extremely limited or simply blocked. Without FTP, there is no way that they can download that file without some kind of special hacking software (Which, if they are really nosey they will be able to get it as all unencrypted web information is sent via PlainText).
I found a few sites depicting various methods to encrypt VBS - some using PHP some with ASP here and here.
My advice would be to use HTTPS, which would solve the problem across the board.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51525 | A: Booting Hyper-V VMs via the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) requires booting that computer from its network card, and specifically a legacy network adapter. Recall that a Hyper-V VM can use either a legacy or a "regular" network adapter. First, a legacy network adapter must be added to the VM; then, the Startup order in the BIOS must be rearranged to start the OS first from that legacy network adapter.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51527 | I'm going out on a limb with this column by focusing on a technology that's been over-hyped for years—Voice over IP (VoIP). Nevertheless, after using VoIP for the past 3 months with great success, I believe it might be one of the most important technologies to emerge for mobile devices.
Before we begin, let me provide a word of caution: VoIP is illegal in some countries, typically those that have a national telecommunications monopoly. In the United States, VoIP is perfectly legal, although telecom companies don't care for it. If you have any doubts about the law in your area, consult an attorney before experimenting with this technology.
Conceptually, VoIP is easy to understand: The sender speaks into a microphone that connects to a PC sound card. The microphone detects sound waves from the sender's voice and converts them into analog signals, which the sound card and, in turn, the PC digitize. A coder-decoder (codec) compresses the resulting digital signal into packet data that travels over the Internet. At the receiver's PC, the process is reversed to play back the sounds originally made by the sender. Conducting this process simultaneously in both directions is known as a full-duplex connection. You can even use this technology over traditional telephone lines—more on that in a minute.
When you consider that Internet packets travel over connections with much more bandwidth than a standard analog telephone line, the VoIP process should work. Nevertheless, a significant technical challenge exists: Conventional telephone transmission over the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) occurs as a continuous stream of data, regardless of whether it's in analog or digital form. By contrast, packet data transmitted over the Internet doesn't necessarily arrive continuously or in order—packets can even be lost completely. Dealing with the potential for discontinuous, out-of-order, and missing packets makes writing codec software difficult. Nonetheless, it can and has been done.
So why use VoIP? Most Windows-based PCs have Microsoft NetMeeting installed—typically under Start/Programs/Accessories/Communications/NetMeeting. If you run NetMeeting on two PCs on your LAN, the first PC can call the second PC using the second PC's IP address. With headsets on both PCs, the audio quality is excellent. So why bother talking over the computer when there's probably a telephone right next to each PC? Suppose the two PCs are in offices at either end of the country. Pick up the telephone, and you'll be making a long-distance call, typically at business rates of 10 to 20 cents per minute or higher. A VoIP call, by contrast, is free.
VoIP Gateways
Making computer-to-computer calls is interesting, but to be really useful, you need to be able to call conventional telephones. To do so, you need to use a VoIP gateway, which is typically a specialized router that incorporates both IP and PSTN functionality. VoIP gateways typically use either the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) H.323 protocol (http://www.openh323.org) or the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP—http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/sip). Both protocols let you switch between real-time multimedia data streams and digital packet data.
For branch offices and small office/home office (SOHO) users like me, public VoIP gateways are available. For the past 3 months I've been using deltathree's iConnectHere gateway. This gateway isn't free, but at less than 3 cents per minute, it's considerably cheaper than conventional long distance. In addition, the iConnectHere service lets me make long-distance calls from a conventional telephone by dialing an access number and entering an account number and PIN. As a result, I can use the same account I use for in-office VoIP calls to make calls while I'm traveling—at extremely competitive rates.
deltathree provides PCPhone software, which Figure 1, page 24, shows, for use with its gateway. PCPhone runs on Windows-based desktop, notebook, and Tablet PCs. The software lets you use an IP address to call another computer, the same way you'd use NetMeeting to contact someone (PCPhone can even interoperate with NetMeeting). PCPhone can also call conventional PSTN phone numbers—the application opens a SIP session with the gateway, which in turn completes the call.
Wireless VoIP
Now that you've got a taste of what VoIP can do, you might be wondering why this discussion is relevant to mobile and wireless users. The answer is that the application and protocols work equally well over wired or wireless networks. Using PCPhone, I've been able to use my home office 802.11b wireless network to make calls from a Tablet PC. You can even make a VoIP call from a Pocket PC, using SJ Labs' SJphone, which Figure 2 shows and which is a Windows CE program that functions as a client for both SIP and H.323 connections.
For several years now, we've heard predictions about convergence devices—those that merge the functions of a cell phone and PDA. Such devices exist, but they're expensive, typically tied to one particular cellular provider, and often have limited PDA functionality. With VoIP applications, you can turn any Pocket PC, Tablet PC, or notebook PC with audio hardware into a convergence device, as long as you remain within the range of an 802.11b Access Point (AP).
VoIP Performance
Not every Internet connection works with VoIP—in particular, firewalls and gateways that use Network Address Translation (NAT) can be problematic. Depending on the protocol you use, ports on the firewall must be open to permit the creation of VoIP sessions. PCPhone provides a Network Settings test, which can help determine whether a particular Internet connection will work; I ran the test on my home office wireless LAN (WLAN), which uses NAT, and the connection works just fine. As of this writing, SJphone doesn't support NAT, but the company is promising to support NAT traversal in future releases.
Network performance can also be a concern. Before you run any VoIP application, you should perform a network response test (e.g., Ping) against the IP address of the PSTN gateway (or a typical target PC for a PC-to-PC connection). Any response that takes longer than 250 milliseconds (ms) round-trip will probably produce unacceptable results.
Corporate and enterprise IT professionals will be concerned about bandwidth requirements and scalability. According to Windows XP's built-in network monitor, VoIP calls use no more than 1 percent of typical 802.11b bandwidth (about 100Kbps), so one 802.11b wireless AP can support as many as 100 simultaneous VoIP calls. Of course, such high call volume will negatively affect network response for other applications. However, assuming a more reasonable number of callers, the performance effect should be negligible.
In addition to sending VoIP calls through a VoIP gateway, you can also receive incoming PSTN calls on a computer through a VoIP gateway, which eliminates the need for a telephone on a user's desk. However, this configuration is beyond the scope of my personal experience and might require a static IP address. Personally, I've found that using PCPhone for outgoing calls frees up my analog telephone to receive incoming calls—in effect, giving me two phone lines (the DSL line I use for Internet access carries the outgoing calls).
I've heard horror stories from several users of earlier VoIP systems, which typically delivered poor call quality with severe echoes and long delays. I haven't experienced these problems with deltathree's service or in my own experimentation with VoIP applications on the local network segment, but as the saying goes, your mileage may vary.
VoIP Savings
I haven't been able to completely wean myself from the habit of reaching for my telephone handset. Nevertheless, during the past 3 months, I've been able to cut my long distance bill in half. I expect to lower my bill even further as I become increasingly comfortable using VoIP instead of a traditional phone.
Enterprise users might be able to achieve even greater savings. Many corporate calls take place between employees in different offices. Almost invariably, these employees are sitting at desks in front of PCs. As a result, these calls can be made from computer to computer, at essentially no cost beyond the investment the company has already made to provide Internet access.
I've experimented with using VoIP to make calls while away from my office. I've had great success testing VoIP on a neighbor's 802.11b home network, and it should also work at most wireless hotspots, such as those provided by T-Mobile at most US Starbucks locations.
The Future of VoIP
I'm not alone in seeing VoIP (particularly when combined with wireless networking) as a truly revolutionary technology. Many hardware and software vendors are working on methods to include VoIP capabilities in their products. I recently learned that ViewSonic plans to include VoIP software with its V1100 Tablet PC.
One tip I can offer: All voice applications (including VoIP and speech recognition) work better with a headset than with the low-quality microphone and speakers built into most notebook and Tablet PCs. Voice applications, including both VoIP and speech recognition, are the first radically new and truly useful (not to mention money-saving) applications I've seen in many years. These technologies really work! |
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The heresy of religious opposition to global warming
Michael Stafford ABC Religion and Ethics 19 Mar 2012
Those who oppose global warming on theological grounds have forgotten something fundamental about faith. If God is the author of the world, then the truth can never be heresy.
Do not be deceived. The opposition to the scientific evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming (AGW) among some conservatives may, at times, hide behind a pseudo-scientific veneer. However, much of it is often really rooted in an anti-intellectual strain of religious fundamentalism.
It is this element - a barren theology that leaves no room for our God-given gifts of reason and discovery - that gives the opposition its implacable character.
Some say faith and reason are at war in the modern age. Not so for men like Congressman John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois, who premises his rejection of AGW on scriptural passages promising that the Earth will not perish in a flood. For him, the war is over, and reason has been routed from the field.
Sadly, Shimkus is not alone. Senator James Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, has recently claimed that it is arrogant and "outrageous" to think that humans could alter the planet's climate - a climate that has been ordained by God. Citing to Genesis 8:22, he has argued that AGW cannot be occurring because "as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest." For Inhofe, God is firmly in control.
Rick Santorum, a leading Republican presidential contender and an outspoken opponent of AGW, has expressed similar sentiments, arguing that humans
In essence, the theological argument against AGW maintains, alternatively, that it is impossible because God would never permit it, because God controls climate, or because only God has the capacity to destroy the world. I suppose these individuals have never heard of nuclear weapons.
It is the religious aspect of the AGW debate that has taken it out of the realm of mere policy, and planted it firmly in the thick of the culture wars.
As a result, any understanding of opposition to AGW, or of the apparent anti-intellectualism in segments of the GOP today, must begin with a discussion of religion and theology - specifically, the anti-intellectual theology underpinning elements of the fundamentalist Christian Right. In this regard, climate denial is merely one aspect of a broader rejection of reason and scientific inquiry.
With respect to the environment, these theological strains tend to place great emphasis on humanity's "dominion" over the Earth, but downplay or entirely ignore our concomitant responsibility for the stewardship of it. In so doing, they provide a false reading of the Book of Genesis, one that ignores the connotations of nurturing and care present in the original Hebrew text in favour of an interpretation emphasizing naked power and supremacy.
Simply put, the Biblical mandate is to care for creation, not to commodify and exploit it.
In addition, AGW also touches on millennialist currents and visions prevalent in some streams of fundamentalist Christianity. This is significant. Stewardship is rooted in a concern for the future well-being of others. It matters little if you believe our world has no future, or that God will miraculously rescue you and spare you from the worst consequences of your own actions. In the face of very real problems, such an escape into magical thinking may temporarily relieve anxiety, but it actually accelerates the trajectory towards disaster.
In its opposition to AGW, the anti-intellectual theological strain also ignores the first of the cardinal virtues - prudence. Prudence speaks to the need for sagacity, for careful reflection and consideration. It is a requisite for effective stewardship, and effective political leadership.
Today, there is no debate in the scientific community about whether the Earth is warming - it is. There is also a nearly unanimous consensus that human activity significantly contributes to this warming. There is some debate over the severity of the consequences that will inure from this and, on the margins, over whether we can take any remedial measures that will slow, stop, or reverse this process.
The consensus position, however, is clear - we can say, with a great deal of confidence, that AGW will have a significant negative impact on human civilization and the natural world, and that there are practical steps that could be taken now to avoid, or at least mitigate, this fate.
Given the potential implications for humanity, it is reckless to ignore the broad scientific consensus on AGW. Doing so in the face of this evidence is tantamount to an abdication of both our duty to future generations, and of our duty to care for the natural world. It is an act of immense selfishness. After all, the natural world, our Earth, is a shared inheritance. And, as the late Admiral Hyman Rickover once said:
Placing religion and theology in the service of such selfishness and irresponsibility is an act of deep betrayal.
In the end, a theology that requires the rejection of empirical evidence on a variety of topics, and an escapist descent into magical thinking, is not a living faith. It is a dead one. Such a faith is not spiritual armour for the believer going out into the world, but rather, an intellectual tomb for someone hiding from it.
Let me suggest something different. Faith and reason are not at war - or at least, do not need to be. Religious belief and rational inquiry are not binary pairs of opposites. Indeed, at a fundamental level, both religion and science remind us of the deep mystery underpinning the world, and our existence in it.
Scientific inquiry also expands our knowledge of the natural world and the universe which, we are told in Genesis, is a reflection of God. This is why learning, the quest for knowledge and understanding, is a sacred thing. Or as Pope Benedict XVI has taught, religious faith "consolidates, integrates and illuminates truth[s] acquired by human reason."
For my own part, I think God gave us our minds, our intellects, and our capacity to reason, in the hope that we would put them to use advancing the common good.
In their opposition to AGW, religious conservatives imagine themselves as brave dissenters defending individual rights and biblical truth from yet another assault by a grasping, rapacious, regulatory state and the atheist liberals that run it.
They are wrong. They are actually reprising the role of the Inquisition in the trial of Galileo. For even as Shimkus, Inhofe, Santorum and those like them invoke the name of God, the scientific community, supported by an overwhelming body of evidence, answers back "and yet ... it warms."
Those who oppose AGW on theological grounds have forgotten something fundamental about faith. If God is the author of the world, then the truth, whatever it is, can never be a heresy, and people of faith ought never fear it.
Instead, what we should fear is the long-term consequences of religious faith being deployed against AGW. In the end, so long as humanity endures there will be seed time and a harvest.
Today, at a moment when we still have a fighting chance to avert the worst dangers posed by AGW, and secure a more decent future for all our progeny, Inhofe, Shimkus, and Santorum, are busy sowing seeds - seeds of falsehood, doubt, and delay. Their seeds will one day bloom into a bitter harvest, when the time for reaping comes.
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• David Arthur :
28 Mar 2012 2:11:19pm
Several comment-posters to this page suggest that the recent decrease in the rate of ground-level atmospheric temperature rise is evidence that global warming either doesn't exist or has ceased. These people are wrong on both counts, because such suggestion neglects the numerous factors that account for the recent slowing in lower troposphere warming; these factors include the following.
1. Sunlight-reflecting aerosols.
2. Ocean absorbtion of retained heat - once the troposphere starts warming, additional heat is then transferred to the oceans, as well as increased retention by the ocean of insolation that penetrates the ocean surface.
3. Phase change - ice => water,
4. Phase change - increased water evaporation (the latter factor also facilitates heat transfer through the lower troposphere up to where water vapour condenses, but is only partial compensation for warming due to increased greenhouse gases).
5. Decadal and longer fluctuations in ocean currents. For example, the start of this last decade was an El Nino period (elevated surface air temperatures), whereas the end of the decade is a La Nina period (generally lower surface air temperatures).
It is erroneous to think that slowed rate of global average air temperature shows slowed warming. Oceans and icecaps are continuing to absorb heat, so that the overall rate of thermal energy accumulation is undiminished.
• Peter :
26 Mar 2012 3:26:21pm
The effort to paint AGW as real IS a religious effort, there's no observation of anthropogenic global effect...whilst temperature is 'flat' still. The entire effort to paint CO2 as 'bad' rests on just 30 years ending the 20th century and such warming isn't unusual or unnatural. There's no fact of anthropogenic effect observed, political effort thus stagnates a dialogues trail on. Solar and Wind power cannot actually power its own production process, and Coal use isn't dangerous to the environment. Costs of such reducing are made via increased manufacture within China which uses little of its own productions of such artifacts.
• stalga :
25 Mar 2012 11:26:53pm
Some people here are saying that coal fired power stations are the essential ingredient to relieve poverty. I disagree. The cost of producing solar cells has been reduced by 70% the last 18 months and wind turbines, even if they do require a gas boost are still a very clean energy. Nuclear is also clean energy if you ignore the potential for meltdowns. Coal may be plentiful but even it won't last forever. Using it for another one to two billion people to courting disaster.
China is this week looking into it's pollution problem, Beijing the focus. The residents are unhappy and want action, many of them still live in poverty, they just get to breathe filthy air as well. Don't forget hydro, although dams that block rivers are not undesirable.
The phenomenom of global dimming is retarding some of the effects of AGW, as a consequence the full picture will be clearer when significant steps are taken to reduce emissions and the skies clear. This has been shown in Europe when they reduced vehicle and other emissions. They had a measurable temperature increase in a only a few years as the air cleared.
Luckily we have very few fundamentalist deniers in the lucky country but unfortunately we have Alan Jones, who thinks he is a God.
Again, considering coal as an answer to poverty lacks some imagination. Rejecting AGW using the Bible is misguided and using the issue as a political football is immoral, sinful if you like.
• gjds :
24 Mar 2012 11:14:43am
I find it unreasonable to equate politically active people in the USA who may choose to claim Biblical authority for their position as representing Christianity. I am always suspicious of those who mix politics with anything, including religion. Science has been greatly supported by those who profess the Faith in Christ for many centuries and it will continue to be so, because the scientific method essentially seeks correct answers to valid questions concerning our world.
The facts that form the basis for the current debate on climate change are beyond dispute - greenhouse gases concentrations have been increasing and this is directly equated with the industrial activity mainly of the developed nations. The Greenhouse effect is also beyond dispute. Our concern should not be the diverse and sometimes extreme religious or atheistic views, but on the way to deal with the problem without causing bigger problems in the process. This is difficult and I think the political extremes make this even more difficult.
• Murray Alfredson :
26 Mar 2012 6:42:39pm
Sorry if I have missed something, GJDS, but I did not see anyone equating those who for religious reasons (that is, certain literal and selective views of the Book of Genesis) with Christianity or Christians in general. Are you not putting up an Aunt Sally there, just to knock it down?
• gjds :
27 Mar 2012 10:48:01am
I am assuming the article deals to a great extent with US people who claim biblical authority for their views.
• Murray Alfredson :
27 Mar 2012 9:23:53pm
Exactly, GJDS. But there is no assumption made in the original article that such people are representative of Christianity.
• gjds :
28 Mar 2012 6:40:44pm
I accept your point Murray; however people who discuss these matters while refering to the Bible are often identified as the Bible belt, evngelicals and so on - I still take these terms to refer to Christians. I certainly refer to myself as Christian, thus I try to make my point. On the matter of using Genesis as a source, I am puzzled, since a central theme in the account(s) is good and evil, death as a result of eating of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil and so on. Thus seeking justification on the grounds 'as creatures of God to have dominion..' misses the point that we creatures of God are sinners (oops I should not use such an anachronsistic term?!) John Shimkus is attributed it seems to take comfort from a flood that destroyed humanity - such irony when we are discussing events that may be that cataclysmic.
• Matthew :
24 Mar 2012 12:05:51am
I am pleased this was filed in Opinion and not the News section. here is more to than the debate than Pro-AGW Scientists and commentators knocking their opponents. Some of the facts put forward by the Pro-AGW crowd are conveniently brushed over.
• David Palmer :
22 Mar 2012 9:01:47pm
My basic objection to this post is that it is written for a US context and then being posted here is implying that Christians in a Australia are equivalent to those naughty American fundamentalists.
I think we have got to the point where pretty much everybody agrees a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead to a 1 deg C rise in global temperature as a direct result of increased CO2. There are legitimate questions about the degree to which that doubling of CO2 will indirectly act to cause other reinforcing effects (it all comes back to clouds and water vapour) that could raise the temperature by more than 1 deg C. There is genuine scientific uncertainty and disagreement over this issue.
The far more important question not dealt with in this article is "if the temperature rise is going to be, say, 6 deg C over the next century due to a doubling of CO2 concentration with knock on effects, what actually can be done to prevent this occurring".
The answer to this question given that the developing world is crying out for cheap energy, implying the burning of fossil fuels, is not much is going to happen to reduce the ramping up of atmospheric CO2 concentration any time soon.
In the meantime the global temperature rise has pretty much stalled the past 15 years which raises interesting questions on that score. How long will this hiatus continue with what implications for future temperature rises?
From a Christian point of view I'm all for the developing world gaining access to cheap energy to help pull their people out of poverty. This is what we have done in the West and I can't see the morality of us denying such an opportunity to China, India, Brazil, etc and regardless, its going to happen anyway!
• James Picone :
23 Mar 2012 12:53:07pm
The currently-accepted range of feedbacks for doubling of CO2 is 0.5 to 3.5 - that is, total climate sensitivity is expected to be in the range 1.5-4.5c. 6 is right out. That's straight from the most recent IPCC report.
Secondly, 15 years is barely long enough to observe long term trends. Have a glance at a graph of average surface temperature some time. This is a good one - . Notice that it's extremely noisy, and as a result it's easy to pick intervals such that every trend line has negative or only slightly postive as a result. Also notice that the general trend over the entire set is upwards - that's only HadCRUT3 - there's a more recent dataset that includes more information in arctic regions and some other minor changes - but that mostly changes the noise, not the overall signal. Here's a comparison: .
Mostly, saying there's been no warming since 15 years ago is misunderstanding the nature of climate. 1998 was a La Nina year, and particularly warm, so baselining around about 1998 is a great way to make the graph look like there's no increase. If you look at a rolling five-year average the continued warming is much clearer.
• David Palmer :
23 Mar 2012 2:22:23pm
Hi James,
Fair response. I say let's wait and see.
There will be no action on reducing CO2 any time soon short of a world wide depression (always possible).
What would you say if after 20 years the global temperature gradient remained flat, or even extending out 30 years? Hopefully we will have a better handle on climate science.
As a general principle humans have always been good at adapting to new conditions as they come along - part of being made in the image of God.
• Murray Alfredson :
23 Mar 2012 5:31:51pm
You seem to regard homo sapiens as the only species that counts, David. That is a very blinkered view. Speciesism, like many other -isms, has a certain arrogance about it.
• David Palmer :
24 Mar 2012 7:10:34am
Big assumption there Murray.
I believe humans are uniquely made in the image of God with unique capabilities possessed by no other creatures for purposes spelt out in the first two chapters of Genesis.
• Murray Alfredson :
27 Mar 2012 9:30:11pm
Exactly, David. That ancient text does say something like that. It seems to me no excuse for disregarding the interests of other species. Humans are as much animals as are insects, fish, or other mammals. Have you never seen a spider or a swan in pain, for example?
You might give special value to the word of the Bible. Most of humanity does not. Nor do apes, monkeys and cattle.
• James Picone :
23 Mar 2012 5:48:07pm
Not much we can do other than waiting and seeing - as you say, governments around the world don't have the collective strength of will to do a damn about emissions. That doesn't have any bearing on whether we should do something about it, of course, but it's the truth we're going to have to live with - we've rather missed our chance to avoid significant warming.
I'm a software engineer, not a climate scientist, so my opinion on the size of trends should be taken with a grain of salt, but I'd be surprised if there was a thirty (30) year span without a statistically significant warming signal, assuming we hadn't had significant negative forcings like extreme vulcanism, large meteroite impacts, or a significant nuclear war. Or some kind of geoengineering. Twenty years I would be a bit less worried about, but I'd still expect to see something of a warming signal, it just might be less obvious.
Yeah, humans are good at adapting to things - it's probably one of the things evolution selected our intelligence for. Global warming is unlikely to lead to the extinction of humanity. It just might make things unpleasant, is all. Obviously if we don't do anything about it in the long, long term we've got the risk of making the oceans anoxic, but that would take centuries of increasing emissions, and surely we as a species aren't /that/ stupid.
• Patrick :
26 Mar 2012 2:19:43am
Hello David,
The best evidence shows the hottest last ten years on an increasing temperature rise, not something that you would wait and see! Wait and see what? We are not made in the image of god. We can change our energy production to emit less CO2 which is the best way to adapt!
• David Palmer :
27 Mar 2012 6:25:23am
Hi Patrick,
The reason why it can be claimed that the last decade was the warmest is that there was a steepish rise in global temperature through the 1980's up to 1997 and then the levelling off occurred post 1997. Let's wait and see what turns up this decade.
We are made in the image of God and it is only your unbelief that prevents you from seeing this for now.
Unfortunately we are not going to reduce CO2 emissions and wishing it so won't change anything. Emissions aren't increasing to any great extent in the West but they are increasing rapidly in the developing world. This information is readily accessible.
Wind farms and solar can't do it, nuclear could but is expensive and is tied up in red tape principally because of concerns re waste, etc
• Martin Snigg :
23 Mar 2012 1:18:49pm
Agreed David.
Only the willfully blind can't see how a rejection of the Gospels leads to abortion, infanticide, killing of defectives, disdain for the poor, domination by God substitutes, like pantheism inspired environmentalism that unites global statists today. "Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." GK Chesterton.
The last thing godless liberals care about when they counsel for an end to coal is the welfare of the poor in developing countries. Freeman Dyson cuts through the green cant on that score.
• David Arthur :
23 Mar 2012 1:43:54pm
My basic objection to David Palmer's post is that it sets up a false claim - namely that the developing world's need to develop is most efficiently achieved by use of fossil fuels.
Implicit in this, of course, is that David Palmer can only be clueless as to the environmental effects of further fossil fuel use (including that of the developed world).
If earth had no water, then a doubling of atmospheric CO2 would increase average temperatures by about 1 deg C, as Mr Palmer writes. However, earth does have some water; increasing air temperatures increases water evaporation rates and atmospheric water vapour content. Because water vapour is a powerful greenhouse gas, the average temperature rise caused by a doubling of atmospheric CO2 must also factor in warming due to additional atmospheric water vapour, so that average temperature rise will exceed 3 deg C.
Now, the vast bulk of the additional retained thermal energy will report to the oceans, which function like the radiator fluid in your car - that is, they transfer it from hot areas (near the equator) to where it is cold (the Poles). That's why Arctic temperature rise in particular is already and will continue to be way more than the global average 3 deg C.
This will melt lots of icecaps, so that all the poor people will need their newfound wealth to buy the boats to transport themselves to higher ground at higher latitude. They'll need to pay more for food, as climate change disrupts agriculture, and they'll be buying more medicines as tropical diseases spread.
Still, when they resettle on the newly thawed Siberian tundra, they'll have plenty of methane, bubbling up from the former permafrost, with which to sterilise the needles for the vaccines. Whiloe this will add to the atmosphere's CO2, that's nothing compared to the warming that will be caused by any methane not converted to CO2.
Thanks, Mr Palmer.
• David Palmer :
23 Mar 2012 2:32:30pm
No David Palmer isn’t clueless.
What David Arthur has done is trot out all the kinds of things that might happen under certain scenarios. He may be right, he may not be.
What we do know is that the developing world, actually China at present to be followed by India and other developing nations with Brazil being another big one, are going the cheap energy route to pull people out of poverty and they will do so regardless of what David Palmer or David Arthur think about it. Not only that but windfarms, the “darling of the West”, when they get much above 5% penetration require gas fired turbine backup thereby destroying their CO2 free credentials, whilst the shut down of CO2 free nuclear reactors in Germany and Japan will increase each country's CO2 emissions as they turn to coal and gas to make up the shortfall in base load.
• David Arthur :
23 Mar 2012 7:00:42pm
What David Arthur has done is trot out exactly what is happening, right now, in the real world.
China is already committed to capping its coal imports by 2015, India will be making a motza exporting its thorium technology to the world by the end of this decade, and Brazil is a world leader in biofuels. China will be making its motza selling PV panels, wind turbines and High Speed Rail technology.
The Good News is, developing nations do not need to follow a high fossil fuel use trajectory to improved standards of living.
It's nations like Australia, nothing more than a quarry for coal that no-one will want to buy, who will be the poor white trash of Asia.
• David Palmer :
27 Mar 2012 6:30:25am
David Arthur, you are poorly informed. There is a difference between what people say they will do and what they are doing. Agencies like the IEA and the US EIA are providing continuous updates on emissions, use of fossil fuels, the minuscule energy output of solar panels.
Stop dreaming, get real!
• David Arthur :
28 Mar 2012 8:57:24am
David Palmer notes that IEA and US EIA are reporting no decline in fossil fuel use.
Doubtless, this is correct. Large-scale replacement of existing power-generating infrastructure hasn't yet started.
So what? We know it's going to happen, and I suggest David Palmer keep himself informed by regular perusal of "Climate Spectator" (
• David Arthur :
24 Mar 2012 4:23:20pm
David Palmer writes that: "I think we have got to the point where pretty much everybody agrees a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere will lead to a 1 deg C rise in global temperature as a direct result of increased CO2."
This is not correct, Mr Palmer; the increase in atmospheric CO2 from Ice Age to pre-Industrial climate was from ~200 ppm to ~300 ppm; this resulted in a 4 deg C increase in global average temperature. Atmospheric CO2 has now approximately 400 ppm; we can therefore expect a further global average temperature rise from pre-Industrial climate of 2.6 deg C, thanks to the logarithmic nature of the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and "equilibrium" global average temperature.
To date, we have seen an average temperature rise from pre-Industrial climate of 0.8 deg C. That means that, even with no further addition to atmospheric CO2, a further 1.8 deg C rise is already "locked in"; the reason we haven't seen it yet is that the oceans are still catching up with atmospheric warming to date.
So much for the promise of the economists, diplomats and politicians that we will aim to avoid global average temperature rise from pre-Industrial climate of more than 2 deg C; that target is already not possible.
• James Picone :
26 Mar 2012 12:57:35pm
The 1c/doubling of CO2 over 100 years is the pure radiative forcing change, not the total temperature change, and it's definitely correct. You can calculate it from physics. It's just the extra heat put into the atmosphere /solely/ from having more CO2.
The actual temperature range includes the feedback effects, and the current IPCC estimate is 1.5-4.5c over 100 years from a doubling of CO2.
• James Picone :
23 Mar 2012 5:51:14pm
Realclimate has had a number of fascinating posts discussing the possibility of explosive release of methane from clathrates and the effects on the climate - they mostly concluded that it would be unpleasant but not catastrophic, and that over the medium term CO2 still dominates the radiative forcing - mostly because of methane's short atmospheric lifetime, I believe. Link here:
• David Arthur :
23 Mar 2012 7:03:00pm
Google Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum.
An Anthropocene Thermal Maximum remains a real possibility over the next 20 millenia.
• Murray Alfredson :
23 Mar 2012 5:34:52pm
I am not sure what you imagine the source of 'cheap energy' will be. Fossil fuels are going up in price as they become less readily available. I much doubt their 'cheapness' in the future.
• David Palmer :
24 Mar 2012 1:58:09pm
The information on fossil fuel reserves and price trends as well as the comparative costs of electricity generation from coal, gas, wind, solar and nuclear is readily available.
I find generally that and the writings of Peter Lang and Martin Nicholson to be helpful sources of dependable information as well as the annual surveys of the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Currently, the carbon tax on fossil fuel costs, needs to be about $100 for wind-farms to no longer need the current regime of Government financial support and advantageous feed in tariffs. Solar needs a carbon tax anywhere between $250-$400.
The fossil fuel in short supply is oil. There are several centuries worth of coal reserves left while the book on gas reserves is currently being rewritten with the discovering of vast reserves of shale gas now accessible as a result of the so called fracking process, and of course the potential for nuclear power based on uranium and thorium is huge going into the future.
Gas prices have been falling and make the case for nuclear power more difficult to make to say nothing of the uncompetiveness (and irregularity) of wind-farms and solar power.
• Murray Alfredson :
27 Mar 2012 9:32:41pm
High time, I think, that you went back about 200 years in your reading to great Christian clergyman, Malthus.
• Martin Snigg :
22 Mar 2012 10:50:53am
Obviously this whole piece hinges on what the author takes to be the clear deliverances of climate science, i.e CAGW. But that just makes me laugh. Observations show no warming for 15 years, against the predictions generated from computer models constructed under this CAGW hypothesis.
Yet it was upon this hypothesis that political elites determined to disgorge hundreds of billions in general revenue in re-education projects and climate science grants. . The auditing of the scientific results generated is carried out mostly by volunteers, because individuals dissenting from the orthodoxy that frames the funding run the risk of being labelled 'deniers' and institutions an end to their grant money.
Climate Gate 1.0 and 2.0. shows scientists (now counterfeited as priests) aren't immune to the blandishments of money and power, and why calls for a seperation of science and state are getting louder.
"The history of the west is a story of the state assimilating every useful institution into itself" DB Hart.
Various taxes on all energetic activities in society is quite baldly about a massive transfer of wealth to 'planet saving' liberal elites. Children now learn from a very young age in schools that our illustrious rulers are saviours of the world.
If the author wants to wear the livery of empiricism then be serious about it, if he wants to highlight the corruptions of thought that come from faulty theologies he first ought to follow the money. And then explain how the a/theologies of liberal elites function to sustain a movement that would otherwise completely collapse in the face of real world observations. He would note the striking similarities between the ad hoc explanations of phenomena and attendant change in language (global warming/cooling, climate change, carbon[sic] pollution, clean energy future, new economy, etc) and those of Creationists to new physical data. But Creationists are not in a position to do a even a minuscule fraction of the damage CAGW believers can do.
There are plenty enough reasons to promote frugality and simplicity against soul destroying consumerism but none of them involve the concomitant enriching and empowering of a political class almost impregnable now ensconced in their Leviathan 'market-state'.
• Jake :
22 Mar 2012 1:38:58pm
Foolish comments and attempts at mud-slinging Martin.
Warming of the globe has continued unabated, with the last decade the warmest on record (may I suggest checking with say, NASA, instead of ''.
Re Climate gate, over half a dozen independent inquiries have cleared the scientists in question of any wrongdoing or misrepresentation - but hey, keep on slinging...
PS Care tto address the issue of 'prudence' (or the precautionary principle) raised - even if the evidence was only 50/50 that AGW was happening, would you be willing to take that chance, given what it entails?
• Martin Snigg :
22 Mar 2012 2:58:57pm
Well you know what they say mud slingers in glass houses. Well honed intellects and trained probosci such as the likes of you posses should have no trouble negotiating their way round Anthony Watts' site Jake. - searching for those hearings you mentioned, NASA, just what the warming trend actually reveals, and some numbers to put on that precautionary principle of yours. The science is 'settled' afterall, expose Watts' most popular science blog on the net and its foolish denizens, you can probably get a grant for it.
I think I'll apply the precautionary principle to the likely venality of Governments spending vasts amounts of other people's money and their university climate science gatekeepers. Thanks all the same for the invitation to a climate science debate.
• Patrick :
26 Mar 2012 2:31:40am
Hello again Martin,
Please illuminate us to your understanding of the planet. For example how old is this world? Did dinosaurs live with human kind? Where is your evidence for a non warming world? How is that everyone else is wrong and you are right?
• David Arthur :
22 Mar 2012 4:47:34pm
Well done, Martin. You've parsed the sociology and spirituality of the High Priests of the Church of Climate Scientology brilliantly.
The one thing you haven't done is get in touch with reality at all. Perhaps a few simple facts might help you.
1. Sun irradiates earth with short-wave energy.
2. Earth re-radiates long-wave energy.
3. Greenhouse gases retard transmission of long-wave energy, not short-wave energy.
4. Greenhouse gases thus regulate earth's temperature.
5. Altering atmospheric greenhouse gas content therefore alters earth's temperature.
6. Ocean is thermally coupled with atmosphere, and transfers a lot of heat to both Arctic and Antarctic.
7. Arctic sea ice is melting, so that summertime sunlight is being absorbed in exposed ocean rather than reflected off ice.
8. Greenland and Antarctic ice is melting, increasing the rate of sea level rise. The rate of ice melt is accelerating as atmospheric greenhouse gases increase.
9. In the Arctic, tipping points have been crossed. Permafrost is thawing, releasing stored methane and carbon dioxide, and warming Siberian continental shelf is causing release of methane from submarine methane clathrates.
• James Picone :
22 Mar 2012 4:53:38pm
Martin Snigg, once again, opening his mouth only to change feet.
Observations over the last 15 years show a clear warming signal, well within the error bars of the models you're deriding. The original "No warming in the last n years!" meme comes from 2007, with 'n' set to 10 years, and was simply an example of poor statistics and obvious cherry picking - 1997 was a particularly warm year, 2007 was a particularly cold year, and the claim of 'no warming' was based solely on drawing a line from the 1997 point to the 2007 point and observing that the slope was negative. There's so much wrong with that it's not even clear where to begin. And that's before we even get onto the point that 15 years is maybe only just barely enough time for a warming signal to be unequivocal, that no increase in average surface temperature doesn't necessarily imply no AGW (we might have increased negative forcings as well - particulates in the atmosphere are one of the big ones there. It's why after major volcanic eruptions the average surface temperature tends to drop), and that average surface temperature is extremely chaotic on a year-to-year basis (compare a five-year average to the year-to-year values, for example).
Your claim that it's some kind of self-sustaining groupthink driven by money doesn't stack up against the behaviour of scientists in general - see, for example, relativity, or the big bang theory, which became widely accepted physics despite treading on the ideological toes of the entire physics community. As I'm sure you're aware the /name/ 'Big Bang' was intended as a pejorative epithet! If a scientists produced quality research demonstrating that negative feedbacks were substantial and so climate sensitivity is likely low, they would win a Nobel prize, not the scorn of their peers.
The money isn't actually a great deal, and most of it isn't going to the scientists concerned. No scientist is getting rich off of climate science. Believing that this kind of groupthink would occur in the modern scientific community is pretty much unbelievable - it suggests, to me, that you've never really met a scientist and don't understand their viewpoint. Good scientists live to challenge orthodoxy. That's the fastest way to build a reputation in science.
A reference to 'climategate' reveals that you're mostly getting your information from the denialist echo chamber - wattsupwiththat has never been the most reliable of sources. An in-context reading of the emails produced reveal absolutely nothing shocking. Essentially all that's in there is the discovery (shock, horror!) that scientists have strong opinions about loudmouths who don't have enough education to back up their opinion shrieking that they're wrong about something they've spent years researching.
I agree that state and science should be separate, in the sense that the state shouldn't interfere in scientific research. Of course, when it comes to
• James Picone :
23 Mar 2012 12:28:26pm
Comment got snipped. Here's the rest:
I agree that state and science should be separate, in the sense that the state shouldn't interfere in scientific research. Of course, when it comes to climate research, overwhelmingly state interference has been to try and suppress the results - for example, NASA under George Bush. If you're talking about no state funding for science, you can bugger off. It's a miniscule amount of money and it's about the only way science will ever get funded, because Eris knows the market won't fund anything speculative.
The science says nothing about how to prevent AGW, other than "Produce less greenhouse gases". Individual scientists probably have opinions, and the opinions of world leaders have mostly converged on market-based mechanisms like a price on carbon or emissions permits because that's what they did with SOx and NOx, and it worked pretty well for them, because neoliberal economics is the ideology in power, and because reifying externalities is a tradition in economics. Alleging some kind of conspiracy is ridiculous. If anything properly implemented greenhouse gas markets should be transferring money to the poor more than your imaginary 'elites'.
The most basic principles of the AGW argument come from basic physics, and absolutely cannot be argued - more CO2 increases the surface temperature of Earth on average, and radiative forcing from doubling CO2 is 1c over 100 years. There is observational evidence of an increase in radiative forcing from more greenhouse gases - the increase in average surface temperature over the last five decades or so, accompanied by the stratosphere cooling, exactly as predicted. There is observational evidence that humans are increasing the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere.
The only point where any kind of 'scientific' argument against AGW can get any traction is solely in the magnitude of the feedbacks - IPCC says 0.5-3.5c for a doubling of CO2 over 100 years, denialists mostly don't say anything because they're too busy repeating discredited memes from five years ago and the majority of them don't even know what 'feedbacks' are. If you want to play the empiricism game, educate yourself instead of playing unsubstantiated conspiracy games.
• Martin Snigg :
23 Mar 2012 12:41:19pm
It suffices to say not persuaded by the comical 'scientists are special snowflakes' argument. We're did they find this Christlike ability to confront politico-areligious powers? (Lysenkoism, Aristotelian physical science, Eugenics, Phrenology, weapons research, global thermonuclear/biological extinction of all life on the planet)Any cursory look at the history of science shows the same stakeholding, the same human corruption - that's the pattern of human history.
What demands explanation today is how/why proportionate media interest in mercenary behaviour isn't given to subscribers to CAGW orthodoxy when the differential in funding is enormous.
I know scientists just fine, top marks in my organic chemistry degree and successful (I might say) science educator for 8 years.
• James Picone :
23 Mar 2012 6:22:34pm
A list of things some scientists got wrong (or things that are arguably inethical) is not a list of ways scientists have fallen to groupthink or a demand for funding. Get a group of people who tend to be young, idealistic, interested in finding out how the world works, and a bit outside the social norm and you'll find a strong tendency to clash with authority if and when it seems appropriate. See, for example, Galileo, and again, relativity (which was a paradigm fundamentally different to Newtonian physics), the Big Bang model, which again was loathed and scorned by several major astrophysicists before the data forced them to change their mind. Consider Dr. Marshall and Dr. Warren, who went against the majority opinion of scientists on the causes of peptic ulcers and proved them wrong. The history of science is full of people taking a principled stand.
The media applies a disproportionate amount of criticism to scientists working in the AGW field than is warranted given the evidence. The media doesn't go digging for dirt on, for example, researchers in evolution. Why should they do it to climate scientists working in a field that's nearly as well evidenced?
Had a look through the first few articles in the link you posted, Joanne Nova appears big on rhetoric, light on substance, pretty much as I expected. No evidence of corruption at the level of scientists.
I'm amazed that somebody with a science education could be so hostile to scientists, and so far into the deep end of religion. You're one hell of an outlier.
• Martin Snigg :
27 Mar 2012 3:04:12pm
So dedication of 11 years of my life to physical science is evidence of hostility to scientists? and you're to be trusted interpreting evidence coming from embryonic and politically compromised global 'warming?' science?
Religious neutrality is a myth James, my suggestion is to learn to swim because you're drowning in yours.
• James Picone :
27 Mar 2012 6:32:24pm
No, the evidence of your hostility to (some) scientists is that you say things like "embryonic and politically compromised global 'warming?' science?". You're smearing an entire field of scientists by claiming that they're producing fraudulent results in order to prop up a theory for political reasons. What is that but hostility, directed towards scientists?
Not sure what religious neutrality has to do with anything, but my opinions on religions have very little to do with my opinions on science.
I'm somewhat curious as to how you justify a disbelief AGW. You can't claim that humans aren't adding CO2 to the atmosphere, because there's observational evidence of that. You can't claim that adding CO2 to the atmosphere isn't a radiative forcing into the atmosphere, because you can calculate that from basic physics. So as far as I can tell you're left claiming that the feedbacks are estimated way too high, but I don't see your reasoning for why that's the case. Care to elaborate?
• J.Brian Waddington :
22 Mar 2012 12:34:31am
I agree that taken as a whole the Hebrew scriptures do indeed teach that we are called to be stewards of our Mother Earth. But Gen. 1:28 declares we have 'dominion'. That word and the way it is used is the same word and usage as for an absolute monarch that can do whatever they want to their subjects. I wish I was wrong but I'm not.
• Patrick :
26 Mar 2012 2:42:42am
Hello J.Brian
Ummm, we are actually able to change the way we do things if we wish to for the better
• Murray Alfredson :
21 Mar 2012 10:52:37am
Wow! It looks as though Grant from down below copped a well deserved serving. Stick your neck out with such nonsense, and it deserves the chop.
• lostnfound :
22 Mar 2012 12:51:50am
"Stick your neck out with such nonsense, and it deserves the chop."
Then I should make it known that Grant is not alone in his creationist stance. I support his comments in general, though like many creationists I am rather circumspect about AGW. On balance I think its probably true, (albeit overstated in its consequences) despite my disgreement with the supposed historical record compiled by scientists to support the notion.
But my real disagreement is with this article's attempt to align anti-AGW with religious fundamentalists, at least in Australia.
Here, the anti-AGW campaign has some high-profile spokesmen in Andrew Bolt and Ian Plimer. Try telling them that they're religious fundamentalists.
• Just the facts :
22 Mar 2012 9:29:39am
The point of the article is to highlight the fact that a great deal of the opposition to AGW doesn't come from "people in the know" .. but rather is based on an interpretation of scripture that people, particularly people with a creationist mindset feel has a greater truth than that of those people best trained to understand the data interpret.
Evolution denial and AGW denial have a similar pathology when its done on purely religious grounds. There is a wealth of corroborative data to support both and yet the argument is always pushed into the few remaining unknowns and this is leveraged out in an attempt to create a credible level of uncertainty.
Its perfectly possible to have valid doubts about all sorts of aspects of AGW - given the specialists complex nature of the data - its better left to the experts to sort this out and go with the expert consensus than to expect that there can be meaningful, informed discussion around this in the public forum anymore than I would expect the untrained masses to meaningfully discuss string theory and respect the laymans opposition to that.
• Murray Alfredson :
22 Mar 2012 6:13:36pm
Dear Mr or Ms Lostnfound
1. There is no need for a Christian to interpret the Genesis stories literally. There is also no evidence that they are historically reliable. The probabilities are that they are myth of a sort commonly developed by ancient peoples.
2. The article does, as Just the facts points out, give an account of thinking by climate change deniers in the USA who happen also to be fundamentalist Christians. He shows with examples that among influential circles there is a tendency to deny climate change for reasons that have nothing to do with the science, but stem from their theology. I find that account quite convincing as a description of the culture involved.
3. And yes, one implication is that those who deny climate change and human involvement in it on theological grounds lack any claim to scientific credibility.
• lostnfound :
23 Mar 2012 8:49:53pm
Christianity without a literal Genesis is an empty shell. Only a literal genesis gives the basis for scripture's contention that death was not part of God's original creation. Death is not 'natural', but is the result of us cutting ourselves off from God through sin. Only then does Christ's death and resurrection become meaningful - to restore our connection to God and thus defeat death.
Almost any other interpretation of Genesis, particularly long-age interpretations, results in death being part of God's creation from the beginning, thus Christ's death cannot 'restore' anything.
Yes I know that most of today's theologians would disagree. But then sometimes being 'progressive' simply means straying from the true path.
As for the article - there may be some truth in the connections drawn. However it is far from the complete story. Nobody has risen to my challenge of fitting Andrew Bolt or Ian Plimer into this theory.
• David Arthur :
20 Mar 2012 11:41:30pm
• Stevo :
21 Mar 2012 9:40:24am
Point well made David!
As for Grant's argument that the world could be just 6,000 years old, well this just says it all about the sceptics doesn't it!
• Murray Alfredson :
21 Mar 2012 10:47:26am
What a thought, David! It could make a fine myth poem, perhaps a dramatic monologue.
But do use the the subjunctive when appropriate, please: 'If I were Satan ...'
Sorry about that. I am both a language conservative and a language stretcher.
• David Arthur :
21 Mar 2012 2:30:43pm
Thanks for the correction regarding my grammar.
"If I was Satan ..."
If I were Satan ..."
Hmm ... as well as being grammatically correct, the latter also cuts it as poetry, the former smacks of incoherence.
• Murray Alfredson :
22 Mar 2012 6:17:12pm
Only if the poetry be provisional or conditional, David.
You are welcome. But for me the weakening of the subjunctive in modern English means a weakening in our capacity to write in a supposing rather than an indicative way.
• Grant Vandersee :
20 Mar 2012 2:32:19pm
Michael, Quite an interesting read, and some worthwhile points made. However there are some parts with which I must take issue.
1. Conservative (or fundamentalist) Christianity is not anti-intellectual. There may be some who are, but as a whole, this philosophy is not against scientific research and learning.
2. There are still many scientists who disagree over whether the world is warming at all, or at least, whether the current warming is just part of regular cycles seen before.
3. The majority of conservative Christians do actually favour caring for the Earth & environment, but do not endorse wild environmentalist ideas presented by extremists.
4. Taking into consideration a proper reading of Genesis, and the scientific work that supports the idea of a world approximately 6000 years old, and worldwide flood about 4500 years ago, the scientific research covering millions of years used for climate change suddenly has a whole new meaning. This raises many questions which have not been answered.
So, finally, thank you for looking at this issue carefully, but please try and refrain from generalisations about Christian groups and science etc.
• Murray Alfredson :
20 Mar 2012 9:37:20pm
Grant: An odd post indeed. You make a set of vague assertions, but not even an example to show what you mean, let alone any indication of evidence.
What, for example, is the content of support by conservative Christians caring for the environment?
What is a 'proper' reading of Genesis. To me, a proper reading is as several among many ancient and beautiful creation myths.
I have never seen any respectable scientific opinion that the world is only 6000 years old, or that there was a universal flood a mere 4500 years ago. That takes us back to about the time of the building of the pyramids.
Who are these vaguely stated 'many' scientists who dispute global warming, all evidence to the contrary. Among many thousands of scientists, what proportion assert such nonsense?
I think the issue is not about about fundamentalist Christians being anti-intellectual, but about whether they be open minded and flexible on their thinking, whether they can take on board new thinking without feeling their core values under threat. Because their present stances and machinations suggest that they are more about defending an entrenched position than accommodating to new knowledge, and often not so new, as in Darwin's seminal work.
• Daniel :
20 Mar 2012 10:14:53pm
Grant, point number 4 is the clearest evidence imaginable that your first point (number 1.) is clearly false, especially in regard to your own views.
Anyone who thinks the earth (or the universe) is only 6000 years old (or even ten or a thousand times that figure), has clearly lost all touch with reality as understood by about a dozen scientific disciplines, from physics to genetics to biology to astronomy to chemistry to nuclear physics . . . . and so on.
It is also alien to almost every theological institution on the planet, and 100% of theological institutions attached to universities.
It is possible to have a very high IQ and still be taken in by the weirdest cults on the planet. But the word anti-intellectual describes an opposition to either the majority of the world's learning or specific aspects of it.
You belong to the former, in that you appear to disagree with the foundations of almost all the sciences taught from primary school through to tertiary institutions. Not to mention just about every theological body on the planet.
• Byron Smith :
21 Mar 2012 3:42:34am
2. Find me a reputable publishing climate scientist who holds either of the positions you mention (no warming and/or nothing unusual in the warming (including no anthropogenic influence)). Now find me "many". There is no scientific body of national or international standing that disputes the basics of climate science, and a huge number have risked their most valuable asset (their reputation) in affirming them.
3. Extremists are those who believe we can fundamentally alter the composition of the ocean and atmosphere without serious consequence for human life and the rest of the created order.
4. Your young earth creationist assumptions are showing and do little to support your first claim.
Grace & peace,
• David Arthur :
21 Mar 2012 9:51:58am
Grant, in response to your interesting take on reality.
1. Fundamentalist Christianity is completely and determinedly anti-intellectual, and Denies all evidence to the contrary. Witness, for example, Fundamentalist Christianity's attempt to Deny evolution.
2. There are many well-renumerated mouthpieces for climate Denialism, some of whom have an education and career in science.
3. If the majority of conservative Christians see climate change as wild or extremist environmentalism, then they are clueless about the following straightforward facts.
a. Sun irradiates earth with short-wave energy.
b. Earth re-radiates long-wave energy.
d. Greenhouse gases thus regulate earth's temperature.
e. Altering atmospheric greenhouse gas content therefore alters earth's temperature.
f. Ocean is thermally coupled with atmosphere.
4. A proper reading of Genesis: In Chapter 1, Man is Created last, and is a mere part of Creation, or Chapter 2, in which Man is created first and names all creatures which God "brings forth"; it is only by being so named that each act of Creation is completed.
• Spinoosa :
22 Mar 2012 1:19:32pm
Well, Grant, you really are a case in point. What I'd like to know is how you justify failing to take into account all the other creation myths, you know, the ones about giant snakes and flying turtles etc etc in your "reasoning", and if you included them, how interesting would be our religiously-informed "scientific" understanding of the world. Well, perhaps "interesting" is not quite the word.
• Murray Alfredson :
19 Mar 2012 9:59:22pm
An interesting argument, Michael, and interesting observations on the strange ways of thought of the religious right in the USA.
Your argument, that the world is warming despite the theological arguments to the contrary, should put the lie to those arguments.
You argue, of course, from within a Christian frame of reference. Move outside that frame, and the theological argument against global warming becomes mere nonsense, not mere heresy. I am outside that frame. One can take several positions, one completely atheistic, but another, that god did not display great wisdom and foresight in making creatures such as our own species, that has overrun the planet and wreaked such havoc in doing so.
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On the battlefield, the Race of Light is at war with the Race of Shadow. Swordsmen from the Race of Light, Norman and April, once fighting side by side, find themselves separated from each other during a skirmish against the Race of Shadow. Will these two ever be reunited?
At the same time on the same battlefield, Persia and brave Sabrina, swordswomen also from the Race of Light, find themselves caught by Stallion and sent to prison. What awaits them are the most obscene of sexual tortures... will they be able to escape these cruel torments?
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Why is it that married men are physically and mentally healthier than unmarried men, but for women in unhappy marriages, the reverse is true?
The answer may lie in differences in the way men and women process their spouses' and their own emotions, said University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Robert W. Levenson, PhD, at APA's 2001 Annual Convention.
Stressful, emotion-provoking situations, such as marital disagreements, can send people's hearts racing, among other physiological changes. But it's what men and women do once they're aroused that can affect their health, said Levenson. Researchers have found that those who have strategies to lower physiological arousal during stressful situations have better physical and mental health as well as higher marital satisfaction and stability.
Men are more likely to use such strategies, explained Levenson, because, "for husbands, the more physiologically aroused they are, the more negative they feel emotionally." However, "for wives, there's no significant relationship between how aroused they are and how badly they feel."
Such findings point to the possibility that men are in tune with their own emotions, while other research suggests women tune into their husbands' emotions.
For most husbands, when marital conflict produces negative emotion, "they experience higher autonomic arousal, they feel badly and they withdraw," Levenson said. When they remove themselves from the interaction, they down-grade their level of physiological arousal, and as a result, he believes, won't suffer any long-term harmful effects.
But when men don't withdraw from the situation and instead suppress their emotions, they become significantly more physiologically aroused--a less effective coping technique Levenson calls "stonewalling."
Because women's emotional experience doesn't always mirror their physiology, he explained, women may be physiologically aroused without actually experiencing negative emotions. If they aren't feeling bad, they attempt to stay engaged in the discussion while their husbands begin to withdraw or "stonewall"--leading wives to feel frustrated and even more stressed. In poor marriages, that continual heightened stress produces physiological responses in women than can lead to poorer health, Levenson theorized.
Another possible theory for unhappily married women's poorer health, said Levenson, takes into account how accurately married people can tell what their partner is feeling.
"Men and women are just as good at knowing what the other is feeling," he said. "However, there's a consequence of that that shows an interesting gender difference. When wives are accurately reading their husbands' emotions, they take on the physiology that their husbands are showing. Mean-while, husbands--who are just as good at knowing what their wives are feeling--don't show that kind of physiological activation."
These findings could mean that, in bad marriages where husbands are physiologically aroused, wives may take on their husbands' physiological arousal, resulting in additional long-term stress that can lead to women's poorer health. |
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diuerfe men [to] loke at theyr marke diuerfe wayes: yet
they al lede a mans hand to fhoote ftreight yf nothyng
els floppe. So that cumlyneffe is the only iudge of Deft
lokyng at the marke. Some men wonder why in calling
a mans eye at ye marke, the hand mould go flreyght.
Surely ye he confydered the nature of a mans eye, he
wolde not wonder at it: For this I am certayne of,
that no feiuaunt to hys mayfter, no chylde to hys
father is fo obedient, as euerye ioynte and pece of the
, body is to do what foeuer the eye biddes. The eye is
the guide, the ruler and the fuccourer of al the other
partes. The hande, the foote and other members
dare do nothynge without the eye, as doth appere on
the night and darke corners. The eye is the very
tonge wherwith wyt and reafon doth fpeke to euery
parte of the body, and the wyt doth not fo fone fignifye
a thynge by the eye, as euery parte is redye to folow,
or rather preuent the byddyng of the eye. Thys is
playne in many thinges, but moft euident in fence and
feyghtynge, as I haue heard men faye. There euery
parte ftandynge in feare to haue a blowe, runnes to the
eye for helpe, as yonge chyldren do to ye mother: the
foote, the hand, and al wayteth vpon the eye. Yf the
eye byd ye hand either beare of, or fmite, or the foote
ether go forward, or backeward, it doth fo : And that
whyche is mooft wonder of all the one man lookynge
ftedfaftly at the other mans eye and not at his hand,
wyl, euen as it were, rede in his eye where he
purpofeth to fmyte nexte, for the eye is nothyng els
but a certayne wyndowe for wit to Ihote oute hir
head at.
Thys wonderfull worke of god in makynge all the
members fo obedient to the eye, is a pleafaunte thynge
to remember and loke vpon: therfore an Archer maye
be fure in learnyng to looke at hys marke when he is
yong, alwayes to moote ftreyghte. The thynges that
hynder a man whyche looketh at hys marke, to Ihote
ilreyght, be thefe: A fyde wynde, a bowe either to
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51731 | How Many Cups of Water Equal a Gallon?
16 cups are equal to 1 gallon. A gallon has mostly been replaced by a liter but it is a measure of volume which was greatly used in the Western Europe. A gallon is approximately 4 liters.
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There are 16 cups in one gallon. If you're planning to make a gallon of tea, please remember to share with the group. Did I mention that I'm part of the group and that I love tea?
There is 128 ounces in a. gallon. and 8 ounces in a. cup. so you would have 16. cups. in a. gallon. !
There are 16 US cups in one US gallon. To convert a value in US gallons to US cups, multiply by 16. Also, 1 Imperial Gallon equals 19.215 US cups.
One cup = 8 Ounces. One gallon = 128 Ounces. 128/8 = 16 Cups/gallon, 8 Pints/gallon, 4 quarts/gallon. : Hope this helps! :
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There are 16 cups in a gallon of water. You also may want to know that there are 3 ounces in a cup, 4 cups to a pint and 8 pints in a gallon. ...
There are sixteen cups in a gallon. Put another way one gallon equals 16 cups. Orange, milk, and other juices are often sold by the gallon. ... |
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750ml is a value of liquid measurements that is mostly used in the packaging of wines and liquor. This system is mostly used in the United States and it is also referred to as a fifth. It is preferred for its estimation to the once-common one-fifth-gallon bottle.
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750 milliliters equals 0.75 liters.
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750 mL can be expressed in a variety of way. 750 mL is equivalent to 25 ounces. 25 ounces is equivalent to 4-1/8 cups. This is a little bit more than 2 pints.
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750 ml is equal to 2.53605 fl.oz.
750 mL is as big as a standard wine bottle. It is equivalent to 0.026485 cubic ft or 45.7678 cubic in!
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750ml is equal to 0.75 litres. This means 1 litre is equivalent to 1000 ml. Ml is a unit of measurements of volumes in the metric system. This unit is written ...
Chardonnay is a popular white wine. There are 70 calories in a 3.5 fluid ounce serving. A 750ml is 25 ounces so that would be 490 calories in one bottle of wine ... |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51733 | Seducing an Older Woman
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make the move
After analyzing all three factors, I realized that if I was going to capture Sophia's intrigue, it wouldn't be through my appearance (it's a given that I'm attractive), but rather through her mind.
In order to approach Sophia in a successful manner that would keep her interested in me long enough for her to entertain the thought of making love to me, I would need an original icebreaker, and then manage to hold a stimulating conversation.
Contrary to my usual approach, I did not use any compliments with Sophia. I did not want to sound like a little boy asking for candy. Instead, I looked straight into her eyes (not her breasts), and let my eyes explain how much I desired to smell her skin and feel her touch my body.
the right icebreaker
I finally stood from my stool and walked directly to Sophia. Here's how the conversation developed:
The Player: Hi, I couldn't help but notice that you've been alone for the past twenty minutes, so I thought I'd join you for a drink.
Sophia: Oh, why thank you, that's very nice of you.
The Player: So what name do you belong to, if you don't mind me asking?
Sophia: My name's Sophia.
The Player: Sophia? That's means "wise" in Latin, a very classy name, I'm sure it represents your character very nicely. Well, Sophia, how would you like to offer me a drink?
Sophia: (Laughing) Sure, I've never been asked that before. What will you have?
The Player: I'll have a dark rum and coke (never order a beer).
Sophia: (Looking at the bartender) One rum and coke with dark rum, and one vodka cranberry please. (Looks right back into my eyes) By the way, what is your name?
The Player: David.
Sophia: That's a very sexy name. I've always loved the name David.
patience is a virtue
While waiting to be served, I pulled out a pack of Davidoff cigarettes (that always impresses the ladies) and offered one to Sophia. I asked her why she was alone. Her answer didn't surprise me; she told me that being single and going straight home from work can become quite boring. At this point, the bartender served our drinks.
The Player: I don't understand, can you please explain how a woman of your stature can be single with so many available men?
Sophia: I intimidate most men, either they think I'm married, or they're just too shy to approach me. Usually those that do are much younger, and that doesn't really interest me.
The Player: Really? How old are you?
Sophia: How old do you think I am?
The Player: I'd say around twenty-eight (yeah right).
Sophia: Oh that's so sweet of you. I'm actually thirty-six.
The Player: (Pretending to be surprised) Really, I would never have guessed. So why aren't you interested in younger men?
Sophia: I don't think they're sexually mature. By the way, how old are you?.
The Player: I'm twenty-nine. (At this point, I'm thinking, Wait until I show you my signature move #2 ).
Sophia: Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you.
The Player: It's quite all right, you didn't offend me. However, you managed to arouse a curious challenge within me.
Sophia: Really, what kind of a challenge?
The Player: Ah, I can't tell you, unless you manage to keep my interest level high for the rest of the night. (I looked at the bartender, and motioned for another round of drinks.)
So, do you think she invited me over to her place?
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51738 | Are you still atheist if you believe in a afterlife?
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Thank you.
Everything in existence is apart of the same thing so that could mean you are the universe and existence. I dont really see how hard it is for the universe to think it is one and infinitly many at the same time. I can start counting then have a lucid dream then my body is still counting numbers by itself.
Another is that everything in existence has nonphysical matter that doesnt follow the rules we live in right now.
What comes after is the rest of the universe continuing on with nary a blink. We eventually recycle back into the ground of existence. We've done our part. Hopefully, we've done the best we can do.
An atheist as I understand is the lack of belief in God. Buddhist and some sects of Hinduism could be considered atheistic.
I guess I got to accept the world for what it is and dont worry about what happens after death cause it happens to everybody. Afterlife or not everybody will end the same.
I think that's a great plan.
Hello, Travis.
I can read a bit of Biocentrism in this "afterlife" view that you are attempting to resolve. Here's a link to a fellow A|N member's take on the said topic.
The following is from my "attic"; an exchange on an email discussion list.
I've always wondered why people who think most of us go to be with God after we die are
so afraid of death. (I'm not eager for it, but am not afraid of it. Just would be really
disappointed to lose any good part of this life before my time.)
(JBH): It may be that the cause-and-effect goes in the other direction. They are very afraid of death, therefore they convince themselves that death really doesn't happen. In some invisible way, people go on living.
I once wrote a Leditor announcing a new revelation from God (i.e. Yahveh). I reported: God had decided that the system of Heaven and Hell was just not working. Torturing prisoners had grown boring, and hymns of praise even more boring. So he was abolishing Heaven and Hell and starting a new system of sequential reincarnation. When you die, your soul will go to the back of a line. When you reach the front of the line, you go into the next available human body.
He had declared a general amnesty for the residents of Hell, and put them into the line. Those who were good enough to get into Heaven, all twenty-seven of them, had volunteered to go into the line as well, so they could teach virtue and goodness by example.
He hopes that we will have enough sense to treat each other well and care for the Earth. If not, we will just have to live in the mess. He is turning his attention to other galaxies, where he as other children to raise. He said, "You're on your own now. It's time to grow up."
Thus endeth my revelation. I figured that if people believed it (not really expecting that) it would give everyone the incentive to create a just and sustainable society. It relieves the fear of death, replacing it with the fear that they might be reborn into a place where they will suffer poverty and injustice.
More seriously, I'm sure somebody by now has quoted Mark Twain: "I was nonexistent for millions of years before I was born, and I did not suffer the slightest inconvenience from it." Or words to that effect.
Talia expressed the same sentiment on page 1.
But what we're recycled into isn't exactly pretty...if you believe in reincarnation, I think that's a spiritual belief and you'd be more of an agnostic than an atheist, right??
We are our minds...there's a quote I like: "The mind is what the brain does". Without your brain and your memories, your emotional baggage, your intellect, your self-identity, etc YOU wouldn't be YOU.
I think the brain is a tool of the spirit that lets the spirit animate the body. I dont think that goes against anything being atheist. Whatever the spirit is has been in existence since the beginning of time. The universe exists rather then not being in existence.
Thats the way I feel. People cant think how the consciousness continues on after death and I cant think of how the consciousness stops after death. Either one is an opinion.
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Of course, when you scrape your way down to the nitty and/or gritty of the matter, you learn that just like the Europe-only MX-5 Miata, the Brit version also gets a 1.8-liter motor, not the more powerful 2.0-liter found in U.S.-spec Miatas. Meaning that only a very few crazy die hards would shell out good money for a detuned special edition Miata even if the 1.8-liter model "echoes true spirit of 1990 original." And of course, as we all know (ahem) the 1990 original Miata came with a 1.6-liter power plant and the 1.8-liter motor didn't show up until 1996 1994.
The truth of the matter is there doesn't seem to be any difference between the British 20th Anniversary cars and the European ones aside from the fancy paint job (the 20th Anniversary car is largely an appearance package detailed here). It's just that Britain is such a huge Miata market the island nation secured 33 percent of the production run. After all, the Miata is essentially a British roadster minus all the never absent rust, fatal electrical gremlins and routine catastrophic purging of essential fluids. Still feeling bad that we're not getting a 20th Anniversary Miata? It takes 9.9 seconds for that 1.8-liter to 60 miles per hour... Press release after the jump.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51759 | January 4th, 2011 - 11:13 am
That Second Twirl of Princess Boy
Yesterday on the Today Show, Meredith Viera interviewed Cheryl Kilodavis and her self-described "princess boy," Dyson, age 5 (left). Dyson likes to dress up like a princess, wearing tutus and lots of pink. His mom used to push back against her son's inclinations, trying to redirect him toward trucks and other boyish things. But then her older son said, "Why can't you just let him be happy, mom?" She realized that her discomfort with her son's interests were more about her than about him. She has since allowed him to dress and play however he wants and wrote a children's book called "My Princess Boy" to help other kids and parents who may face a similar situation.
Personally, I'm behind Dyson and allowing him to play however he wants, wear whatever he wants, go to school in tutus, or whatever. Lord knows my boys have enjoyed the not-so-occasional twirl in a fairy or ballerina outfit (see exhibits A and B below).
I was a little conflicted, though, thinking about Dyson's mom. I guess I can understand writing a children's book: The project grew out of her attempts to explain her situation in writing, and I can see how parents and kids reading it together could increase tolerance and understanding of difference. Of course, it's not as if such books don't already exist—"Oliver Button is a Sissy," about a ballet-dancing little boy who gets teased, is a regular in our reading rotation—but I can understand wanting to add another book to the canon, especially one with an African-American hero. Also, Dyson's name and picture and not included in the book, so he maintains some anonymity.
But then, seeing this vulnerable little boy on national television made me feel uncomfortable. It's one thing to dress and act and play however you want, and even to face your friends and teachers at school and in public and make them accept you for who you are—I support all of that, even posting the pictures on Facebook or, ahem, a little local blog. But taking that little boy on national television, broadcasting his face and name, seemed to push the boundaries. Part of the reason I think it's good for kids to express themselves however they feel is that they're still trying things out, figuring out who they are. In five years, Dyson might still love dressing up like a princess and that would be great. But he might not, and he might not like being known as "Princess Boy" for the rest of his life.
I think Dyson's mom had mostly great intentions, but I couldn't help but feel like a tiny bit of her was using the situation to her financial advantage. To me, I think the line would have been taking my little boy on national TV. When Meredith Viera asked him to twirl around a second time, my heart sank. This felt exploitative. And I really hope that all of his mother's best efforts aren't going t make things even harder for her adorable little Princess Boy.
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19 On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews,25 Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace26 be with you!"27 20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and side.28 The disciples were overjoyed29 when they saw the Lord. 21 Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you!30 As the Father has sent me,31 I am sending you."32 22 And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.33 23 If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."34
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24 Now Thomas35 (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side,36 I will not believe it."37 26 A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace38 be with you!"39 27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."40 28 Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!" 29 Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed;41 blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."42 30 Jesus did many other miraculous signs43 in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book.44 31 But these are written that you maya believe45 that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God,46 and that by believing you may have life in his name.47
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Year 2
Investigating Rome and Investigating Greece
These 20 credit modules outline the main themes of Roman (1st-2nd C AD) and Greek (5th-4th C BC) history and historiography. Rome will take place in semester 1, Greece in semester 2. Students will become familiar with the range of literary, epigraphic and archaeological sources that historians use to reconstruct the ancient world. The modules will deal in detail with the problems of using this source material including the agendas and social climate of those who produced them. They will consider processes such as acculturation (including Romanisation) and theoretical models such as structuration theory and Marxist readings of history.
Subjects covered will range from political structures; imperialism and its social, political and economic effects; patronage both central and local; influence of military structures on society; role of individuals in the construction of the past; regional histories. Many of these sessions will consider the “othering” of non-elite male groups.
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Western Asia and Early Greece and Egypt in the New Kingdom
The sessions on Ancient Western Asia will cover the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages and aim to outline historical as well as cultural developments. Beginning with the palace societies and the world of the Amarna diplomacy links will be forged with Egypt and, in greater detail, the worlds of the pre-historic Aegean and early Greece. The course will introduce students to the latest research on the many peoples and cultures that shaped the Near East during this period.
The New Kingdom (Eighteenth to Twentieth Dynasties, c. 1539-1292 BC) saw the transformation of Egypt from rule by the Hyksos to an empire stretching from the Euphrates in Syria to the fifth cataract on the Nile in modern Sudan. It’s an era of warrior pharaohs but also of Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun. International trade and diplomacy figure prominently, as do enormous religious building projects, extensively decorated tombs such as that of Nebamun, the Book of the Dead, personal religion and the village of Deir el-Medina. It’s also the period of Amenhotep, son of Hapu, later deified, and Khaemwese, the ‘first Egyptologist’. This module presents an overview, addressing different topics and themes in a broadly chronological framework, and always emphasising primary sources. Whether you’re fascinated by Egyptian temples and gods, by what they believed about an afterlife, by famous pharaohs, by relief carving, painting and sculpture, diplomatic correspondence and private letters, or interconnections with Africa, the Near East and the Mediterranean, there is something for you.
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Option – From Mummification to Burial
For the ancient Egyptians the most crucial part of life was their posthumous travel to the beyond without dying a second death. Each dead individual had to pass several stages before s/he could become an Osiris and lead his/her life as a circumpolar star in the beyond, “sitting and standing up with the gods”. In this option course we will be looking into the mechanics necessary to guarantee a positive outcome of this rite of passage in order to successfully socialise the deceased into the world of the dead. Textual as well as archaeological sources will help to unfold a detailed picture of the various processes and concepts involved. Among many other topics, we will look into several cemeteries in detail, discuss child burials, listen to recitations performed by priests in the embalming chambers and learn to understand how the Book of the Dead worked. The focus of this option course will be on funerary belief offering a complete picture of how a burial procession leading from the embalming chamber to the tomb was organised, including all rituals and personnel involved. It will enable you to understand ancient Egyptian funerary rituals and religion and will give you an integral picture of the complexity of ancient Egyptian ritual practice.
Option – Pompeii and Campania
The focus of this module will be on the Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, destroyed during the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and their region. It will examine the society, culture and religion of the cities through a range of literary, inscription and archaeological evidence. Students will be introduced to the problems that each of these types of material poses for the historian. The module will address many different aspects of life within the cities including public and private display; the demonstration of loyalty to the emperor and empire; elite patronage; religious cult; work at the cities; public entertainment including gladiators and public deviance; elections and governance. Additionally the module will consider the heritage management of the material remains at the sites and will address perceptions of Pompeii in popular culture (including for instance painting, film and TV, and popular novels). Comparisons will be drawn between the cities and their importance as examples of Roman urbanism more generally will be analysed. Relevant comparisons to other Italian cities will also be made. Finally, the module will consider what the cities can teach us about urban change during the Roman empire.
Option – Sparta
Sparta is an enigma. A society of so-called ‘equals’ whose equality was dependent upon the enslavement and exploitation of others, Sparta excited the imagination of contemporaries from other Greek states and has continued to serve as both a positive and a negative social and political model up until the present day. This module will attempt to get behind the ‘Spartan mirage’ through detailed study of the ancient evidence and a wide-ranging examination of its society and institutions. It looks at the military ethos of the Spartans, the role of the Spartan education system, the relationship between the Spartans and their Helots, and the place of women in Spartan society. This module also discusses the varied ways in which Sparta has been appropriated by ancient and modern writers, and the impact this has had upon academic study of Sparta.
Option – Late Antiquity
This module covers the late third to the fifth centuries AD, the period known as Late Antiquity. Late Antiquity is a crucial period in the Roman World encompassing the destruction of the Empire in the West and its survival in the East. The module deals with the transformation of the ancient into the medieval world. The module will address the social and political history of the period through literature, archaeology and material culture including analysis of key emperors such as the reformer Diocletian who is alleged to have created a more autocratic imperial model, Constantine, the first Christian emperor, and Julian who abandoned his Christian heritage to return to paganism. The module will cover the relationship between Christianity and paganism including conversion, the creation of new holy space and religious violence; imperial capitals such as Rome and Constantinople; the evolution of the imperial court; Rome and barbarians; the Persian Empire; family and gender structures including eunuchs and the effect of Christianity on these structures.
Seminar – Egyptian Literature and Society (100 things you didn’t know about Ancient Egypt)
Did you ever want to know which sacred spells were spoken during the mummification process and how they worked? Did you know that an Egyptian prince battled the Amazons before falling in love with their leader or that Egyptian magicians fought duels using fire, storm and transformation long before Hollywood?
This module consists of two parts. In the first term you will be investigating funerary literature and recitation texts to understand the different genres of texts and how to read the Book of the Dead. We will also discuss how religion, myth and ritual influenced non-funerary literature (belles lettres). During the second term, you will explore life in ancient Egypt as reflected in the fascinating legacy preserved in stone inscriptio ns and on papyri, from temple and tomb texts, to wisdom literature, funny stories and travel tales, love poetry, autobiographies and letters, including sometimes undiplomatic ‘diplomatic correspondence’. We shall draw on translated texts from the whole time-span of the pharaonic period from the Old Kingdom to Roman times, providing ample scope for individual students to pursue their own particular interests within this very wide field.
Seminar – Greeks vs. Barbarians
The stunning victory of the Athenians over the Persians at Marathon and the equally dramatic desperate last stand of Leonidas and his 300 Spartans at Thermopylae were defining moments in Greek history. In many ways Greek identity was forged in these and other battles against the Persians. This course will consider what the Greeks thought of foreigners and their religions, cultures and politics, and what these beliefs and opinions reveal about the Greeks themselves. Often disdainful or dismissive of foreigners or ‘Barbarians’, the Greeks tended to regard non-Greeks as at best inferior, and at worst as candidates for conquest and enslavement.
This course will focus on the defining encounters between Greeks and non-Greeks, e.g. the Trojan War, the mythical encounters between Greeks and Amazons, the Persian Wars, the wars between the Greeks in Sicily and the Carthaginians, and Alexander the Great’s conquest of Asia. The key primary sources that will feature will be Homer’s Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, Aeschylus’ Persians, Xenophon’s March of the Ten Thousand and the Education of Cyrus, the various accounts of Alexander the Great’s Persian campaign, along with a wide array of visual material.
Seminar – King of the World: The neo-Assyrian Empire
For much of the earlier half of the first millennium BC the Assyrian Empire was the dominant power in the eastern Mediterranean region reaching out of its heartland in northern Mesopotamia into Anatolia, controlling much of the Levant and at times even parts of Egypt. This seminar will adopt a multidisciplinary approach to the phenomenon that was Assyria and has a firm basis in the international State Archives of Assyria Project of which AL was one of the original contributing members. A key information and data source for the seminar will be the online and published resources of the Project which includes almost forty volumes of state of the art translations and studies of key Assyrian texts and cultural areas. In the context of the seminar this material will empower students to investigate and research subject areas of their choice over a wide range covering almost every area from the ruthless and bloodthirsty military through to zany love poetry. The seminar will focus on the key areas of Assyrian civilisation including subjects such as science, pseudoscience, economy, law, religion, mythology, politics, propaganda and much else. In terms of approach the emphasis will be on ancient written sources but material culture will also play a role. Students will learn how to brew Assyrian beer, prepare Assyrian blood soup as well as how to predict the future, for example by pouring oil on water or observing animal behaviour.
Seminar – The Roman Army as a Community
This seminar looks at the ‘real life’ experience of being a soldier in the Roman army in the 1st and 2nd centuries A.D. and also the experience of other members of the wider military community such as servants, slaves, women, children, traders. It lays emphasis on using the direct, physical evidence produced by the Roman army. Sometimes this is in the form of the forts and buildings of the army, sometimes objects used by different members of the community, and often it is written evidence produced by the Roman army including inscriptions or administrative documents (such as the Vindolanda tablets from northern Britain). All this evidence will be available in English, whether it comes from Britain or elsewhere, even if it was originally in Latin.
Questions that will be addressed will include:
• How did the Roman army turn a spotty 18-year-old into a Roman soldier?
• How did the Roman military community mark itself out as different and special through such things as dress, speech, law?
• What was the career path of a Roman soldier from enlistment to retirement?
• What informal social and power structures existed within the army alongside the formal command hierarchy?
• What is the evidence for women and children (especially in view of the ‘ban’ on marriage for serving soldiers) and for others such as traders and the native population?
• Were Roman forts really the isolated, all-male world of traditional scholarship?
• How did soldiers relate to the wider world in the provinces in which they served?
The overall aim is therefore to try to understand the ‘reality’ of the day-to-day life of the Roman military community when there was no fighting (i.e. most of the time) and to appreciate the wide range of evidence we have for Roman soldiers and the Roman army other than ‘emperors and battles’ histories. |
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How to quickly identify marketing opportunities
One of the challenges facing most entrepreneurs and small business owners is that the paths to the future seem to be infinite. While this can certainly be a positive, it's also a big challenge to identify which paths we should choose in order to be successful.
I know that my own plans for how approaching my sales channels, identifying new marketing opportunities, planning content development, and finding ways to make my workflow more efficient tend to feel like a huge tangle of yarn in my mind some days. Sometimes the process of trying to untangle that pile of ideas and opportunities is incredibly frustrating, and I sometimes default to doing absolutely nothing.
But I also understand that inaction is not a substitute for taking action. As hockey great Wayne Gretzky once pointed out, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”
Over the years I have learned how to motivate myself to sit down and focus on finding the best answers to the questions that are ever-present in any business owners mind:
• How do I get greater levels of exposure for my business?
• How can I start and create a meaningful conversations with people who most want and care about what I offer?
• What channels do I use to reach these people who have never even heard of my business before?
Obviously, the answers are going to vary depending upon where your businesses is in its lifecycle, the types of products and services you provide, and the needs of your prospects and customers.
What I have found that works best for me when doing any type of business planning is to start at the end. If I can identify what I want at the end of a campaign, a project, a relationship with the customer, or any other point of interaction, then I can better identify what primary goals are associated with that process.
Rob "Spider" Graham is founder and CEO of Trainingcraft, a provider of digital advertising, marketing and sales consulting, and training solutions. He creates digital media sales training solutions for digital publishers through their Certified Sales Training brand. He also teaches at Harvard University and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, covering digital media development, web store creation, business strategies, and interactive marketing best practices. Call him at 855-823-9100.
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And then the climax of Ella’s life—the crash that Rose-Marie had been expecting—happened. It happened when Ella came furiously into the Volsky flat, early one afternoon, and—ignoring the little Lily, who sat placidly on Rose-Marie’s lap—hurried silently into her own room. Mrs. Volsky, bending over the wash-tubs, straightened up as if she could almost feel the electric quality of the air, as Ella passed her, but Rose-Marie only held tighter to Lily—as if, somehow, the slim little body gave her comfort.
“I wonder what’s the matter?” she ventured, after a moment.
Mrs. Volsky, again bending over the wash-tubs, answered.
“Ella, she act so funny, lately,” she told Rose-Marie, “an’ there is some feller; Bennie, he tell me that he have seen her wit’ some feller! A rich feller, maybe; maybe he puts Ella up to her funny business!”
There were sounds of activity from the inner room, as if clothing was being torn down from hooks—as if heavy garments were being flung into bags. Rose-Marie listened, apprehensively, to the sounds before she spoke again.
“Perhaps I’d better go in and see what’s the matter,” she suggested.
Mrs. Volsky, looking back over her shoulder, gave a helpless little shrug. “If you t’inks best,” she said hopelessly. “But Ella—she not never want to take any help...”
Only too well Rose-Marie knew what Mrs. Volsky meant by her twisted sentence. Only too well she understood that Ella would never allow herself to be biased by another’s judgment,—that Ella would not allow herself to be moved by another’s plea. And yet she set Lily gently down upon the floor and rose to her feet.
“I’ll see what she’s doing,” she told Mrs. Volsky, and pushed open the inner door.
Despite all of the time that she had spent in the Volsky flat, Rose-Marie had never been past the front room with its tumbled heaps of bedding, and its dirt. She was surprised to see that the inner room, shared by Ella and Lily, was exquisitely neat, though tiny. There were no windows—the only light came from a rusty gas fixture—but Rose-Marie, after months in the slums, was prepared for that. It was the geranium, blooming on the shabby table, that caught her eye; it was the clean hair-brush, lying on the same table, and the framed picture of a Madonna, upon the wall, that attracted her. She spoke of them, first, to the girl who knelt on the floor, packing a cheap suit-case—spoke of them before she questioned gently:
“You’re not going away, are you, Ella?”
Ella glanced up from her packing.
“Yes. I’m going away!” she said, shortly. And then, as if against her will, she added:
“I got th’ flower an’ th’ picture for Lily. Oh, sure, I know that she can’t see ’em! But I sorter feel that she knows they’re here!”
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Mow, Mow, Mow Your Lawn
Cut down stress by mowing the grass.
Published on June 7, 2011 by Linda Wasmer Andrews in Minding the Body Mowing the grass has mind-body health benefits. There's something meditative about pushing a mower back and forth across that patch of green. Plus, it's a practical way to work in a workout while burning some serious calories. So save the money on a lawn care service, and find another excuse to hire the neighborhood teen. Here's a look at why the grass is greener on the DIY side.
Leaves of Grass
Back and forth and back again. Focusing on the repetitive movement of mowing helps you slip into a calmer state of mind. Meanwhile, the green surroundings help restore attention and promote a sense of well-being.
Cardio by the Yard
Exercise-wise, operating a riding mower isn't much better than watching grass grow. But mowing the grass with any type of push mower counts toward the 150 minutes of moderate physical activity (or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity) you're supposed to accrue each week. A gasoline- or electric-powered mower gives you a moderate workout. To maximize the benefits, choose a model without the self-propelled feature. Even better, pick an old-fashioned, manual reel mower. It offers a vigorous workout, and it's also quiet and environmentally friendly.
Calorie Cutter
Cutting the grass helps mow down calories. To estimate how many:
1. Divide your weight in pounds by 2.2.
2. Multiply your step 1 answer by 0.08 (for a power mower).
3. Multiply your step 2 answer by the number of minutes spent mowing.
For example, a 150-pound person pushing a power mower for 15 minutes expends about 82 calories - comparable to briskly walking a mile in the same amount of time. A manual mower burns even more calories, comparable to running.
Eau de Mow
Ever wished you could bottle the soothing aroma of freshly mown grass? An Australian company has attempted to do just that in a product called Serenascent. Based on the research of Nick Lavidis, PhD, a neuroscientist at the University of Queensland, the product contains three plant compounds that may act as stress relievers. For a stronger whiff without the bottle, get out the lawn mower.
Greener Grass
If you hire a lawn care service, they're apt to arrive with a gas-powered mower, and the emissions from such mowers are a significant source of air pollution. Electric-powered mowers, which don't produce such emissions, are usually a cleaner choice, although generating the power to run them has its own environmental costs. Some localities sponsor lawn mower exchange programs if you want to trade in an old gas guzzler for a newer electric model. For the greenest option, choose a person-powered manual mower, possibly coupled with a scaled-down lawn.
Mower Muter
Another problem with many gas mowers is that they're very loud - about 106 decibels, which is earsplitting enough to cause permanent hearing loss over time. Noise this loud can also increase fatigue, cause irritability, decrease attention, raise blood pressure, and contribute to sleeping problems, even after the ruckus stops. Plus, in a typical suburb, the sound carries for a quarter mile or more, creating noise pollution for the whole neighborhood. Electric mowers tend to be quieter, and manual ones are quietest of all. If you do use a loud mower, wear protective earplugs or earmuffs, sold at pharmacies and hardware stores.
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Gardening is good exercise and relaxing. I have set up a few birdhouses and enjoy watching the activity (I don't feed the birds, no need to, unless you want to attract rodents).
My Honeysuckle Vine needs a trim; the fragrant blooms are heavenly! Sparrows are nesting in there, so I will wait till late winter/early spring to prune, as recommeded.
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Apples ripening on a tree.© CorbisA brief treatment of fruit follows. For information on particular fruits, see apple, banana, orange, peach, and so on. For treatment of the fruit as a reproductive structure, see seed and fruit. For treatment of the cultivation of fruits, see fruit farming. For treatment of the nutrient composition and processing of fruits, see fruit processing.
A fruit is a mature ovary and its associated parts. It usually contains seeds, which have developed from the enclosed ovule after fertilization, although development without fertilization, called parthenocarpy, is known, for example, in bananas. The principal botanical purpose of the fruit is the protection and dissemination of the seed.
Fertilization induces various changes in a flower: the anthers and stigma wither, the petals drop off, and the sepals may be shed or undergo modifications; the ovary enlarges, and the ovules develop into seeds, each containing an embryo plant. (See also seed.)
There are two broad categories of fruits: fleshy fruits, in which the pericarp and accessory parts develop into succulent tissues, as in tomatoes, oranges, and cherries; and dry fruit, in which the entire pericarp becomes dry at maturity. Fleshy fruits include (1) the berries, such as tomatoes, oranges, and cherries, in which the entire pericarp and the accessory parts are succulent tissue; (2) aggregate fruits, such as blackberries and strawberries, which form from a single flower with many pistils, each of which develops into fruitlets; and (3) multiple fruits, such as pineapples and mulberries, which develop from the mature ovaries of an entire inflorescence. Dry fruits include the legumes, cereal grains, capsulate fruits, and nuts.
In general, the chief concerns of fruit cultivation are the propagation and improvement of varieties; the improvement of the microclimatic conditions and soil conditions of the site; the design of planting and spacing systems; the development of training and pruning techniques; soil management, irrigation, and fertilization; pollination; thinning; pest control; and the development of harvesting and postharvest practices.
Fruits are important sources of dietary fibre and vitamins (especially vitamin C). Although fresh fruits are subject to spoilage, their shelf life can be extended by refrigeration or by the removal of oxygen from their storage or packaging containers. Fruits can be processed into juices, jams, and jellies and preserved by dehydration, canning, fermentation, and pickling. |
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51918 | Europe’s Other Gigantic Bank Problem en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:39:57 -0400 Global Macro Monitor MikeA Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:18:01 -0400 That's not entirely true. European countries - unlike the United States - are addressing their debt problems, with spending cuts, reforms and higher taxes. And without the EFSF the troubled countries would be deeper in debt, since interest rates would be much higher without it. Also, bringing down debt is a gradual process, you can't do that overnight. If you're worried about a country borrowing too much, worry about the United States instead. Unlike Europe, they've not even started addressing their structural problems. For now, the United States is safe, but with debt to GDP quickly reaching Italian, and somewhat later, Greek levels, the United States is living well beyond its means and is still in denial. NewWorldPartyDotOrg Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:32:39 -0400 Europe will try to solve a debt crisis with more debt. With the EFSF, they will bring their over-borrowing up another notch, by borrowing more to bail out the incompetent countries that borrowed too much and the incompetent banks. This means that they will steal even more from their children. Read: Europe's "Stealing from Children" goes into Overdrive <a href="" target="_blank"></a> Gary Anderson Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:31:57 -0400 I would like a chart of TBTF banks from each country to see comparison of those to GDP. nerdbert Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:21:35 -0400 Just because the _State_ of California is essentially bankrupt doesn't mean that the businesses there are bankrupt. Yes, it will be somewhat of a drag on their earnings as they move more and more of their business out of the state because the state will start raising taxes and fees, but the overall effect on the US will be minimal. But California has been broken as a government since I left there in the 80s. They've just been lucky that there hasn't been a bigger economic recession since the last big one under Reagan, and with this one they're paying the price for electing spend-and-borrow politicians. Singapura Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:23:01 -0400 Bank liabilities are not equal to country liabilities even if BI wants you to believe otherwise. Bailout by the government is not an given and countries are not obliged to honor non state-owned bank's obligations. California contributes 12% of the US' GDP and is practically bankrupt. Now THAT's a problem. PeterUK Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:17:12 -0400 Why did you rig this chart wildly in favor of the United States and included only the four largest banking institutions? Why didn't you show the entire financial sector per country as a percentage of GDP? As of now, for comparisons sake, this chart is meaningless. Smaller countries, like France, have few banks, and four big banks make up almost the entire financial sector. Bigger countries, like the United States, have many banks, and four big banks make up a relatively small part of the entire financial sector. If you include the entire financial sector per country, the United Kingdom and the United States, will very likely come out on top, since these two countries have extremely large financial sectors (The City & Wall Street). |
global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51920 | herman cain 9-9-9 video
Herman Cain has a vision for America. And possibly the entire world.
"9-9-9" is going global and it's starting in Japan.
Cain's campaign manager Mark Block told The New York Observer's Hunter Walker yesterday that the former presidential candidate will announce the Japanese version of his tax plan in a column on his website Monday.
So why Japan?
Well, believe it or not, Japan actually has a Tea Party, the Tokyo Tea Party, and it is interested in adapting Cain's ideas in Asia.
Though based off of Cain's famous plan, the Japanese version it's going to be called "7-7-7" instead of "9-9-9" in order to be revenue neutral. Cain apparently met with Japanese leaders at CPAC to discuss the details.
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global_01_local_0_shard_00000017_processed.jsonl/51953 | 2011 CC7D screening awards announced
— The 2011 CC7D Screening and Awards Ceremony was held Aug. 20. There were 44 filmmakers whose films were screened.
Winners list includes award, film, team and team leader
n Grand jury: "The Rogue," Trinity Studios, Jimmy Willden
n Honorable mention: "No Clue," Brainstorm, Pablo Schmitt
n Third: "Dead Flowers," Chickie Bawk Bawk, Matt McClung
n Audience (Tie): "Archer & Slade and the Antlers of Gold," Los Tall Boys Media, Omar Becerra and "Dead Flowers"
n Filmmakers': "Too Deep," Half Apple, Andrew Tilley & David Pallotti
n Technical: "The Rogue Trinity Studios, Jimmy Willden
n First Time Participant: "The Rogue"
n Young Filmmaker: "Dead Flowers"
2011 Acting Awards
n Best Actor: David Pallotti, "Too Deep"
n Best Actress: Stephanie Myers, "Dead Flowers"
n Best Supporting Actor: Paul Myers, "Dead Flowers"
n Best Supporting Actress: Kelly Kimball, "The Rogue"
n Best Ensemble: The cast of "No Clue"
2011 Best Use of Essential Elements
n Best Use of Dialogue: Line Torture, "Untermenschen"
n Best Use of Character: (Tie) Jackie 'Mixing a Drink,' "Regressions of a Lesser Mind" and Jackie Gets a Theme Song and Title Sequence, "Jackie Twist"
n Best Use of Prop: Father's Day Card, "2013"
2011 Special Awards
n Best Zombie: Berto Garcia, "B.A.C."
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I already knew I loved Army Sgt. Brendan Marrocco because his attitude after his bilateral arm transplant was just so inspiring. The Iraq war veteran, now 26, lost both his arms (and his legs) after a projectile exploded when he was fighting the fight near Baghdad about four years ago. As it turns out, the first person he wants to shake hands with -- after he shakes hands with his surgeon -- is Blake Shelton. They had a little Twitter conversation, and on Tuesday (Jan. 29) Shelton said, "Hey Brendan ... I can't WAIT to shake the hand of an American Hero/Stud. ... You my brother." After which Marrocco responded, "@blakeshelton holy mother of god!! I can't wait. I'm a huge fan and really looking forward to it. Thank you." I'm not sure when Shelton will shake Marrocco's new hand, but I hope he shakes it on behalf of every American who's grateful for his service.
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